Abstract
How can writers seek audiences in an age when many pathways of exposure to the market have been given over to algorithms? This study explores the oppressive predicament authors face on multiple fronts: the algorithm, the traditions of gatekeeping associated with the few remaining historic companies, and now in even more pervasive circumstances, shadowbanning and de-amplification. These limiters go far beyond the targets of controversial content. Authors can be deamplified due to simple auto-detected copyright infringement, regardless of whether a writer can argue for fair use. This jeopardizes journalism, documentary, and even unintentional or inadvertant inclusion of licensed material in the background of captured creative or journalistic material. This new research explores creativity in the age of autodetection, and the implications suggest a hijacking of the world by injection of mass semiotics into culture, followed by the stifling and limitation of creative expression by claiming copyright dominion over the public sphere.
Presenters
Rob LarsonProfessor, Program Director, Communication and Media Studies, The College of St Scholastica, Minnesota, United States
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
2024 Special Focus—Traveling Concepts: Publishing Systems and the Transfer and Translation of Ideas
KEYWORDS
Domain, Infringement, Copyright, Creativity, Oppression, Algorithm, AI, Automation, Expression
