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This Element looks at contemporary authorship via three key authorial roles: indie publisher, hybrid author, and fanfiction writer. The twenty-first century's digital and networked media allows writers to disintermediate the established structures of royalty publishing, and to distribute their work directly to - and often in collaboration with - their readers. This demotic author, one who is 'of the people', often works in genres considered 'popular' or 'derivative'. The demotic author eschews the top-down communication flow of author > text > reader, in favor of publishing platforms that generate attention capital, such as blogs, fanfiction communities, and social media.

Authorship. --- Written communication --- Publishing. --- Written discourse --- Written language --- Communication --- Discourse analysis --- Language and languages --- Visual communication --- Authoring (Authorship) --- Writing (Authorship) --- Literature --- Technological innovations. --- Self-publishing. --- Fan fiction --- Art d'écrire. --- Édition à compte d'auteur. --- Communication écrite --- authorship. --- Fiction genres. --- Elektronisches Publizieren. --- Selbstverlag. --- Fan-Fiction. --- Innovations.