Authorship 2.0

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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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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