Digital Manual

URL = http://sites.ace.ed.ac.uk/digital-manual/

Description

Penny Travlou:

"The project looks at how the Digital Manual can be a paradigm for exploring multi-authorship, co-creation and publication in other digitised textual forms as well as how it can have relevance to the analogue book and serve as a premise to learn valuable lessons. Specifically, it explores authority, authorship and voice within this expanded domain of writing. It investigates both the structures of power (e.g. hierarchy, heterarchy, peer to peer, etc.) within creative communities as well as the authority and power of the manual itself, within and outside these communities (e.g. the relationship of the ‘manual’ with current regulatory frameworks, such as Intellectual Property law and, in particular, copyright). The project looks at four communities of digital artists/practitioners: FakePress (www.fakepress.it), Sauti Ya Wakulima (www.sautiyawakulima.net), UpStage (www.upstage.org.nz) and FLOSS Manuals (www.flossmanuals.org)."