Technological advances have allowed for great change and opportunity for authors, which seem to generally go unnoticed. Technology determines our understanding of authorship and ownership in some realms, but not in others. For example, often directors are given the benefits of authorship in film and broadcasters in radio and news to some degree at an equal or greater level than the writers of words or artist of graphics, or other "traditional" authors.
In another way, technology provides the space for work to be created. For example, individuals can produce their own music and post it on the Internet for public showing. Similarly, writers can create stories with multiple plot threads, in which readers click on the plot lines they want the story to have and the endings they prefer. In summation, technology creates opportunity for more authors, while raising more complex questions about who is the author.
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"Technological advances have allowed for great change and opportunity for authors, which seem to generally go unnoticed. "
[I am curious about the word 'advancement' = ideological? Do technologies replace, adapt, fade? Had we reached the zenith of how the fax machine could be used as an authoring tool before it fell from habitual use?]
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