Collaborative Authorship

  • readers as writers
  • "function of authorship is no longer fulfilled by one single author" (Hartling 290)
  • the Internet allows collaborative authorship to occur because readers are invited and encouraged to participate in the writing
  • changes the relationship of the original “author” of a webpage to be more of a “technician” or “moderator”
  • This creates the “birth of the reader”
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