Authorship 2.0

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The mushrooming activity generated by the Read/Write Web is truly astonishing, and its implications for education and society are breathtaking. The eagerness that vast numbers of people have demonstrated for connected authorship is inspiring. The potential some imagined years ago when the internet opened up to the general public is now being realized at [...]

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The university commencement address is a special genre. At its best, it offers a window into a great mind that may not often be open to the masses, bestowing elusive keys to the success of an accomplished individual, highlighting both the uniqueness and the universality of that person’s story. The Fringe Benefits of Failure, [...]

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Earlier this year, blogger Andy Carvin issued a provocation: “Web 2.0 and Education, Hot or Not?” He went on to discuss reactions within the education community to Andrew Keen’s book The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing our Culture, including a blog started by Ann Collier called Why we like Web [...]

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When I use the term “authorship,” I am referring to the practice of writing or otherwise creating an original text in any medium. For example, one might author a story, an essay, a book, a message, a diagram, a video, a multimedia presentation, a blog, a podcast, etc.
I believe that authorship is an important [...]

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In collaboration with the College Board’s National Commission on Writing, the Pew Internet & American Life Project has just published Writing, Technology and Teens, a research report on perceptions of teens and their parents about the relationship between their frequent informal writing through digital communication media and formal writing considered to be important for success [...]

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I recommend listening to TED Talks – Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? I heartily agree with Robinson that, “we are educating people out of their creative capacities.” In fact, I have preached a similar gospel, having observed that most every 4-year-old I’ve encountered exhibits great imagination, and yet we seem to [...]

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Web 2.0 (otherwise known as the Read/Write Web) has ignited a revolution in authorship. A rapidly expanding variety of freely available web-based tools support authorship in new and transformative ways, giving rise to what I am calling Authorship 2.0. While new tools are constantly emerging, and existing tools and categories are in a constant [...]

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These digital compositions say a lot about the new face of authorship, in both form and content. They demonstrate how medium and message interact to convey meaning. And they help to illuminate Web 2.0’s dramatic implications for the future of society…
The Machine is Us/ing Us

We Are the Web

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Authorship is changing by the minute. So what’s different about it?
The who, what, where, when, why, and how…that’s what.
Everyone is creating and sharing digital compositions from anywhere at any time, using constantly evolving tools and rules, because we are inherently driven toward the edge of possibility.
Who – Everyone
Today’s authors comprise a worldwide peer-to-peer network [...]

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