Web 2.0 – Author-Reader Roles Merge

April 8, 2008

Web 2.0 brings with it a merging of print culture roles: author and reader to become writer-reader.

“Like Lanham and Landow, Bolter and Poster also see the technologies of electronic writing as reconfiguring the authorial self” (Grusin 1996 p.42).

Grusin, Richard, “What is an Electronic Author? Theory and the Technological Fallacy” in Virtual Realities and their Discontents, ed. Robert Markely (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, 39-54)