Authorship

The underlying ideas of Authorship come from the Structuralist, Modernist era of believing in society as a system full of structures and value systems.

Structuralist

These value systems with their reflection on society and structures, are the reason why we understand the term Author in the way that we do.

Structuralist and Modernists believe
that meaning in work is already there given to us by the author and the author and their ideas are unchallengeable.

Post-Structuralists look at the importance of the audience and user.

believed that the audience is where meaning is made. Users shape and form the content and the.

questioned 'What is an Author' and gave us author characteristics that described a more realistic approach to authorship.

Authorship

author/owner/creator/maker/designer...

gives us what it is to be and understand the author in todays society.

the source (as the author) of a piece of writing, music, or art - Merriam-Webster