Precarious alliances : cultures of participation in print and other media / Martin Butler, Albrecht Hausmann, Anton Kirchhofer (eds.).

International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: participation and precarious alliances, now and then -- Markets -- Net-works: collaborative modes of cultural production in Web 2.0 contexts -- Participation: it's complicated (a response to Martin Butler) -- The history of the Booker Prize as a history of problems and precarious alliances -- Socialist realism in a capitalist context: marketing strategies in the Russian book market -- The new circumstances of content innovation in the digital book value creation network: precarious guarantee of more of the same? -- Authorship, agency, and value -- Whose intentions? the posthumous careers of F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Styron -- Precarious alliances: the case of Arno Schmidt -- Touched by an author: books and 'intensive' reading in the late eighteenth century -- Authorship, participation, and media change: perspectives from Medieval studies -- Politics, institutions, movements -- The war of systems: print capitalism and the birth of political modernity in Britain, 1789-1802 -- 'Success' and 'failure' of literary collaboration between authors in Belarus in the 1920s -- Profession and ideology: cultural institutions and the formation of literary circles in the Soviet occupied territory and the early GDR -- Precarious alliances between literature and law: a tentative account of the case of Australia -- Literary movements as precarious alliances? Observations and propositions on movement discourse and cultural participation.

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Starting from an analysis of practices of participation in contemporary print and other media, the volume opens up a historical perspective, probing the potential of the concept of participatory cultures for the exploration of past forms of collaboration between individual and collective actors (i.e. authors, editors, publishers, fans, critics etc.). In doing so, the volume sheds new light on the historically, culturally, and medially specific forms and functions as well as on the economic, political and institutional parameters that contributed to the emergence and transformation of what turn out to be precarious alliances.

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