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On Medical Authority
August 6, 2015
In a sea of books and media on medicine and illness, too few give voice to the patients.
In a sea of books and media on medicine and illness, too few give voice to the patients.
The changing nature of authorship in the age of mass media as illustrated by the MSNBC host.
The relationship between Hitchens’ written and public voices illustrates the potential of the social author.
The fourth installment of The Social Author examines how literature lost its conversational dynamic, and why that’s a bad thing.
The third installment of The Social Author explores social authorship and holy texts.