Week 3's Readings
Authorship and Social Production The module's third week primarily deals with the concept of "co-authorship" that is displayed in online spaces, and how it differs from the authorship being displayed in analogue spaces. While a book has a set order that the writer wants the reader to follow, which allows the author to have a high amount of authority. In contrast to a book, a webpage is far less linear (allowing the reader to interact with the blog however they want), which allows for the reader to have more authority, at the expense of the author. Attention was also drawn to how one can be expected to display and facilitate collaborative efforts over the internet, in addition to persuading, engaging and enacting a stance for prospective readers (Adlington & Feez, 2019). Two of the primary displays of co-authorship on the internet are comments and tags, serving as a techno-semiotic method of communication, on a blog such as this one. Tags function as both a label and...