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What is distributed authorship?

Distributed authorship = authorship being part of an interactive system

Of this cybernetic relationship we have with each other and the world of dynamic systems is that authorship becomes distributed. Authorship is no longer simply in the hands of one artist, but part of an interactive system. We now distribute the authorship across many, many players, many, many authors within networks.

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