1. A Collaborative Essay on Collaborative Writing
or
Changing Notions of Authorship
or
Is the Power in the text or in the Author?
In the Form of
A hosted series on my Blog exploring the
idea with input from guest writers
• Historical context of Ideas of
Authorship
• Significant Change during
Romantic Era and WHY?
• Why do we still prize the individual
over the collective?
• Significant change post Web 2.0
Considering
the influence
and effects of:
Culture
Copywright
Technology
Plan for :Conceptual
Introduction to Digital Arts and
Humanities
Jessica Jones
T: @LoJo2013
2. •
By the end of the MA I would like to
have confident grasp of the
technologies I need to operate in the
area within which I finally situate
myself, possibly pursue further
research, and certainly have a
growing network of possible
collaborators.
LEARNING OUTCOME
FOR MA
3. Ideal MA Thesis Project
Each Cell Becomes a
Small Theatre
A Historical Survey of Changes in
Socially Defined Body Language &
Gesture, or The Socially
Constructed Self: 1920 – present
Hypothesis?
Resources?
Presentation?
Use to others?
Am I
subject
or
object?
Notas del editor
For the Conceptual Introduction to Digital Humanities course, I would like to host a series of blog posts on my own blog “the frictive diaries of a digital humanist” on the subject of Collaborative Writing. Working titles are “Changing Notions of Authorship” or “Is the Power in the Text or the Author”.I would like to situate the discussion in the wider historical context of ideas of Authorship and how these have changed through Medieval times, the Romantic Era, to the present. Current thinking on the subject either holds to the Romantic notion of the author as a unique creative individual giving birth to ideas a solitary labour or sees the advent of Web 2.0 and it’s interactive possibilities as giving rise to a new (older) notion of authorship that dates to the Middle Ages. Having layed out the territory of the discussion, I would like to invite contributions on the topic by a number of others from different disciplines – a journalist, a novelist,
