And, yes. Tho', in some ways I do think that things like author blogs and twitters do allow for some subtle pushback against the shrinking of the authorial influence that you posit--authors don't usually talk about fanworks in those avenues, granted, but many fans do make passionate connections with the authors through them none the same, however one-sided those connections may be (and always were?).
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Date: 5 Jun 2010 01:06 am (UTC)And, yes. Tho', in some ways I do think that things like author blogs and twitters do allow for some subtle pushback against the shrinking of the authorial influence that you posit--authors don't usually talk about fanworks in those avenues, granted, but many fans do make passionate connections with the authors through them none the same, however one-sided those connections may be (and always were?).