We the Platform

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We the Platform is written by Aarthi Vadde and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0231219695 (ISBN 10) and 9780231219693 (ISBN 13).

"In 2004 at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco, Tim O'Reilly organized the first Web 2.0 Summit. The concept of Web 2.0 would soon redefine the web as a "platform" for cultural exchange and inspire a proliferation of self-publishing and user-generated content, including fan fiction, self-published novels, Instagram poetry, and Wattpad stories that could be distributed and shared with readers all over the world. Makers of "Literature" with a capital L have taken notice and have begun to draw on the approaches of writers and influencers operating outside the traditional, gatekeeping institutions of print publishing, finding ways of incorporating the strategies of platform publishing into the form and distribution of contemporary fiction. In We the Platform, Aarthi Vadde examines how traditionally print-based authors as well as social media upstarts, guerilla writer-publishers, and conceptual artists and engineers have adapted to the possibilities of Web 2.0 and new forms of writing. She provides a history of contemporary literature since Web 2.0 that examines the twitter-fiction of writers such as Jennifer Egan and Teju Cole; Margaret Atwood's experiments on Wattpad; Jonathan Lethem and Lauren Oyler's challenges to traditional ideas of authorship; experiments such as Emoji Dick; and how writers such as Sheila Heti are employing AI and ChatGPT into their writing practice. Throughout, Vadde puts forth an argument for rethinking ideas of the literary to explain how platform-based writing has forced literature out of its protected sphere and altered conceptions of authorship, publishing strategies, and writerly craft in twenty-first century literature"-- Provided by publisher.