Authorship

Massively distributed authorship of academic papers

by Marco Lazzari

Bill Tomlinson, Paul, Eric P. S. Baumer, Donald J. Patterson, Joseph Corneli, Martin Mahaux, Syavash Nobarany, Marco Lazzari, Birgit Penzenstadler, Andrew W. Torrance, David J. Callele, Gary M. Olson, Six Silberman, Marcus Ständer, Fabio Romancini Palamedi, Albert Ali Salah, Eric Morrill, Xavier Franch, Florian 'Floyd' Mueller, Joseph 'Jofish' Kaye, Rebecca W. Black, Marisa L. Cohn, Patrick C. Shih, Johanna Brewer, Nitesh Goyal, Pirjo Näkki, Jeff Huang, Nilufar Baghaei, Craig Saper
"Massively distributed authorship of academic papers"
Proceedings of Alt.Chi at the 30th ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI 2012), Austin, TX, USA, 2012

Wiki-like or crowdsourcing models of collaboration can provide a number of benefits to academic work. These techniques... more Wiki-like or crowdsourcing models of collaboration can provide a number of benefits to academic work. These techniques may engage expertise from different disciplines, and potentially increase productivity. This paper presents a model of massively distributed collaborative authorship of academic papers. This model, developed by a collective of thirty authors, identifies key tools and techniques that would be necessary or useful to the writing process. The process of collaboratively writing this paper was used to discover, negotiate, and document issues in massively authored scholarship. Our work provides the first extensive discussion of the experiential aspects of large-scale collaborative research.

Purloining Derrida? Authority, materiality and the right to philosophy in Argentina

by Francis Jervis

This paper examines the prosecution of an Argentine philosophy professor, Horacio Potel, for sharing a number of texts... more This paper examines the prosecution of an Argentine philosophy professor, Horacio Potel, for sharing a number of texts by Jacques Derrida online. By reading his own critique of copyright and the charges brought against him in conjunction with Derrida’s own work, I consider how Potel challenges understandings of authorship, law, and the ethics of copying, and how it has influenced popular discourse on copying. I also examine how his critique of the printed book as technology of transmission, in contrast to the liberatory potential of digital technologies, complicates our understanding of the materiality of cultural forms in resistances to neoliberalism in Argentina. Potel’s project can best be understood, I argue, as the construction of a reading subject whose orientation to the author and text is radically distinct from those seen either in other forms of “piracy” or liberal discourses of “open access” or “fair use.”

Authorship diplomacy

by Marta Shaw

Co-authored with Melissa Anderson (1st author), Felly Chiteng Kot, Christine C. Lepkowski, and Raymond G. DeVries

Problems with authorship are complicated enough in domestic research, but they can be particularly thorny in the... more Problems with authorship are complicated enough in domestic research, but they can be particularly thorny in the context of international scientific collaborations. Whether authorship disagreements are more common in international or domestic research is an open question, but some aspects of cross-national collaboration do complicate authorship decisions. This article reports on authorship problems faced by scientists involved in international research based on on a series 10 focus groups and 60 interviews with scientists in the U.S. (and a few outside the U.S.) who are involved in cross-national research collaborations.

Review: Shakespeare Only

by Adam G. Hooks

Paradoxical Authorship: Tracing Authority in the Gorakhbāṇī

by Christine Marrewa-Karwoski

forthcoming publication

La paternité littéraire des hérauts d'armes et les textes héraldiques. Héraut Sicile et le "Blason des couleurs en armes"

by Torsten Hiltmann

in: Maria de Lurdes Rosa, Miguel Metelo de Seixas (eds.), Estudos de Heráldica Medieval, Lisboa [accepted, forthcoming 2012].

english:
This paper aims to draw attention to the difficulties scholars encounter in trying to establish the... more english:
This paper aims to draw attention to the difficulties scholars encounter in trying to establish the authorship and the circumstances of the composition of heraldic texts. Based on the example of the famous “Blason des couleurs” treatise, commonly attributed to the herald Sicily, it shows how even seemingly clear evidence sometimes does not withstand a critical examination. It becomes even more complicated if text-immanent references to the authorship and circumstances of composition of the text are completely missing, as can be shown for the remarkable “Treatise on obsequies (and what heralds should know about it)” and especially in the case of mediaeval rolls of arms which much too often are deliberately attributed to some herald without any foundation. The paper would thus like to emphasise the specific features of the transition of heraldic texts and invite to a more critical approach to the question of their origin and authorship.

français:
L´objectif de cette contribution réside dans la volonté d´attirer l´attention sur les difficultés rencontrées par l´historien dans l´attribution correcte de la paternité littéraire et dans la classification appropriée de l´origine des textes héraldiques. À partir de l'exemple du fameux Blason des couleurs, communément attribué au héraut Sicile, nous voulons montrer comment même des preuves qui paraissent évidentes peuvent se révéler fausses après un examen critique. La recherche de la paternité littéraire est d´autant plus compliquée pour les textes qui ne contiennent pas d'indice sur leur origine – comme on peut le démontrer pour le remarquable Traité sur les obsèques (et ce que les hérauts d'armes en doivent savoir) et surtout pour les armoriaux médiévaux que l'on attribue trop volontairement à tel ou tel héraut sans disposer de preuves suffisantes, ce qui n´est pas sans conséquence pour l´interprétation de ces documents. Le propos de cet article est de démontrer la complexité du contexte de la tradition dans lequel les textes héraldiques ont pu être transmis et d´inviter à une analyse plus critique de la question de l'origine, de la transmission et particulièrement de la paternité littéraire des textes héraldiques.


deutsch:
Ziel des vorliegenden Beitrages ist es, auf die Schwierigkeiten hinzuweisen, welche die korrekte Zuordnung der Autorschaft und die angemessene Einordnung der Entstehung heraldischer Texte an den Historiker stellt. Am Beispiel des bekannten „Blason des couleurs“, der gemeinhin Herolds Sicile zugewiesen wird, soll gezeigt werden, wie selbst offenkundig eindeutige Belege einer kritischen Prüfung nicht standhalten. Umso komplizierter wird es, wenn textimmanente Hinweise auf die Autorschaft und die Umstände der Entstehung der Texte ganz fehlen, was sich besonders anhand des außergewöhnlichen Obsequientraktates (oder was Herolde darüber wissen sollten) zeigen läßt wie insbesondere anhand der Wappenbücher, die viel zu gern bestimmten Herolden zugewiesen werden, ohne daß es hierfür eine klare Beleglage gäbe. Der Beitrag möchte daher auf die Eigenheiten der Überlieferung heraldischer Texte aufmerksam machen und zu einem kritischeren Umgang mit diesen einladen.

Authorship, Truth, and Wisdom: A Study of Proverbs and Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle

by Joel Harrison

Apocryphal Agency: A Yorkshire Tragedy and Early Modern Authorship

by Michael Saenger

The Shakespeare Apocrypha, a special issue of Shakespeare Yearbook 16 (2005): 267-291.

‘Intendo di raccontare’: Constructions of Authorship in Renaissance Italian Novelle

by Anna Strowe

Crossroads Graduate Conference in Comparative Literature. University of Massachusetts; Amherst, MA. 2011.

'You're either anonymous or you're not!' Variations on Anonymity in Modern and Early Modern Culture

by Kate Tunstall

What's my name again? Sociotechnical considerations for author name management in research databases

by Rebecca Parker

Won best paper at OZCHI 2010.
Co-authored with Dana McKay and Silvia Sanchez; in Proceedings of 'Design interaction participation', the 22nd Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (OZCHI 2010), Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 22-26 November 2010.

Managing names in bibliographic databases so that they have a one-to-one match with individual authors is a... more Managing names in bibliographic databases so that they have a one-to-one match with individual authors is a longstanding and complex problem. Various solutions have been proposed, from labour-intensive but accurate manual matching, to machine-learning approaches to automated matching which require little input from people, but are not perfectly accurate. Researchers have a particular interest in name management: they are often authors, and receive academic credit based on their work and need correct citation records. However they are also searchers and have an interest in finding all the works by other authors. There has been little work on the tensions between these two needs, nor on how researchers manage their own identities with their choices of name. This paper reports on a study of researchers that investigates both their relationships with their own names, and what they would like from research databases when they are searching for specific authors.

(2011) The Enlightenment and the Modernization of Authorship: Self-Publishing Authors in Paris (1750-91)

by Marie-Claude Felton

Taking a Cue from the Silver Screen

by Zen Faulkes

Die Sichtbarkeit des Autors Tagung» Kontroversen–Bündnisse–Imitationen: Geschichte und Typologie schriftstellerischer Inszenierungspraktiken «25.06.-27.06 …

by Peer Trilcke

Marble and Gold: Self-representation in the Autobiographies of Michelangelo and Cellini

by Peter Lieberman

May, 2011

A comparison of the autobiographies of Benvenuto Cellini and Michelangelo: though the latter is ostensibly penned by... more A comparison of the autobiographies of Benvenuto Cellini and Michelangelo: though the latter is ostensibly penned by Ascanio Condivi, the artist was so involved in its authorship that it too might rightly be categorized as autobiography. Through the 'vite' of these figures, this paper examines the idea of self-representation in general, and the Renaissance's obsession with artistic celebrity.

Chi è l'autore di un film? (Filmmaking and authorship)

by Bartolo Ayroldi

Reviewing the author-function in the Age of Wikipedia

by Amit Ray

Originality, Imitation, and Plagiarism: Teaching Writing in the Digital Age

Caroline Eisner and Martha Vicinus, Editors

Permalink: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.5653382.0001.001

Published: Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008.

Delusional Beliefs and Reason Giving

by Matthew Broome

The participatory turn in the publishing industry: Rethorics and practices (2011)

by Francesca Pasquali

Special CM Journal Issue ‘Interrogating audiences: Theoretical horizons of participation’, edited by Nico Carpentier & Peter Dahlgren,
BROJ/NUMBER 21 GODINA/YEAR VI ZIMA/WINTER 2011.

The special journal issue ‘Interrogating audiences: Theoretical horizons of participation’, edited by Nico Carpentier & Peter Dahlgren has just been published in the academic journal CM (Communication Management Quarterly). This peer-reviewed special issue aims to contribute to the development of participatory theory within the framework of communication and media studies. As always, this requires careful manoeuvring to reconcile conceptual contingency with the necessary fixity that protects the concept of participation from signifying anything and everything. In order to deepen the theorisations of participation, two strategies have been used in this special issue: In a first cluster of articles, the concept of participation will be confronted with another theoretical concept or tradition that will enrich the theoretical development of participation. In the second cluster of articles, the workings of the notion of participation will be analysed within a specific topical field, which will allow deepening participatory theory by confronting participation with the contextualised logics of that topical field.

Summary: One of the cultural and media areas in which the issue of participa- tion – with all its ambiguity – has... more Summary: One of the cultural and media areas in which the issue of participa- tion – with all its ambiguity – has recently emerged to full significance is the area of literature and publishing. Following the music, film and television industries, the pub- lishing industry is in fact facing a vast renewal due to digitalization processes (assuming digitalization as a complex negotiation between social and technological forces). New textual formats and devices (such as e-books), new forms of distribution (e.g. online retailing), new marketing strategies (e.g. in the social media), new models of business (e.g. the print on demand) are becoming increasingly popular. At the same time digi- talization has enabled the creation of a whole new participatory, grassroots publishing market, while grassroots storytelling and social media (e.g. Twitter, Facebook), used as a collaborative writing environment, bring out participatory forms of online writing that continue the tradition started almost fifteen years ago by the so-called “hypertextual fiction” and the avant-gardes before that. In this context, by addressing the theoretical debate and recent social discourses on the e-book, this article suggests a recognition of the diversity of the forms of participation that are ascribed to the new publishing scenario. Secondly – moving from the Foucauldian notion of author-function – the article solic- its the relationship between author and reader in the contemporary digital publishing scenario and addresses the question whether and under what conditions the supposed participatory turn in writing and publishing we are facing promotes the construction of a polyphonic, co-authored, recognizable, collaborative dialogue, or rather points to a cultural landscape where “all discourses [...] would develop in the anonymity of a murmur” (Foucault, 1969).

Theories of Creativity in a Historical Lens

by Vimala Pasupathi

Co-authored with Monisha Pasupathi and Benjamin
Armintor, in Clio’s Psyche 18 (2011): 281–284.