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A Poetics of EditingEditing in the Digital Present

A Poetics of Editing: Editing in the Digital Present [The story told here about the recent past is one of continuous interaction between present and past, as new ‘affordances’ throw up new forms of selection, shaping and linking. The chapter follows acts of editing as they travel to new places in the circuit of communication, expressed in evolving terms such as ‘useability’, ‘filtering’ and ‘curating’. Greenberg pinpoints the factors influencing survival in the digital present, particularly the transfer of editorial labour from producer to consumer, a shift from pre- to post-publication, and a growing concern about the balance between human and computer mediation. The chapter locates in the early years of web publishing and social media the roots of an anti-editing rhetoric, expressed in the ideal of ‘the unedited voice of a single person’.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Poetics of EditingEditing in the Digital Present

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
ISBN
978-3-319-92245-4
Pages
115 –139
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-92246-1_5
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[The story told here about the recent past is one of continuous interaction between present and past, as new ‘affordances’ throw up new forms of selection, shaping and linking. The chapter follows acts of editing as they travel to new places in the circuit of communication, expressed in evolving terms such as ‘useability’, ‘filtering’ and ‘curating’. Greenberg pinpoints the factors influencing survival in the digital present, particularly the transfer of editorial labour from producer to consumer, a shift from pre- to post-publication, and a growing concern about the balance between human and computer mediation. The chapter locates in the early years of web publishing and social media the roots of an anti-editing rhetoric, expressed in the ideal of ‘the unedited voice of a single person’.]

Published: Sep 4, 2018

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