This website represents an online research documentation "sketchbook" which has as main subject the theme of "Authorship and Interaction".

Authorship -c.1500, "the function of being a writer," from author (n.) + -ship. Meaning "literary origin" is attested from 1825. Author -c.1300, autor "father," from Old French auctor, acteor "author, originator, creator, instigator (12c., Modern French auteur), from Latin auctorem (nominative auctor) "enlarger, founder, master, leader".
Challenging these definitions, Michel Foucault argues that the notion of the "author" is socially constructed. He claimed that the literary author was invented during the eighteenth century and isolated "ownership of the text" as one of the characteristics of the relationship between the text and the author. Roland Barthes, at the same time, declared the "death of the author". Barthes argued that, once published, the text is no longer under the control of the author and that the author is irrelevant and also by giving a text an author a limit is imposed to that text, as meaning is produced in the act of interpretation.
Nowadays, what enhances and brings to the front these two philosophers' points of view is what is known as the concept of "free culture". The free culture movement is a social movement that promotes the freedom to distribute and modify creative works in the form of free content by using the Internet and other forms of media. The movement objects to over-restrictive copyright laws, many members of the movement arguing that such laws hinder creativity.

The word "interaction" is defined as a mutual or reciprocal action or influence of things upon each other. The idea of a two-way effect is essential in the concept of interaction, as opposed to a one-way causal effect. Interaction always happens when there are at least two elements within the equation either from the analog world or the digital one.