Authorship is a way of giving responsibility and credit for a piece of written work. A multimedia author collaborates and presents gathered information in the form of multimedia. (websites, books, blogs, texts, music)
With this in mind, Frank Warren, the creator of Post Secret is the epitome of a multimedia author. As he goes on and collects other's secrets, posting them to his website and publishing them in his books.
Michael Foucault began his article with, "In dealing with the "author" as a function of discourse, we must consider the characteristics of a discourse that support this use and determine its differences from other discourses. If we limit our remarks only to those books or texts with authors, we can isolate four different features."
I would like to use this quotation to begi
n my theory which is based upon anonymity and multimedia authorship.
It is clear that Post Secret would not be made possible or anywhere near as interesting if these secrets were not anonymous. The thrill of reading a secret and having something in common with a complete stranger gives many people something to hold onto; hope in this world even.
Frank Warren is sure to use all mediums available, while he created a Post Secret website following the Post Secret Books, Frank has become a member on numerous social networking websites. I think this helps show people (fans) that he really is just like them, interested in hearing what other's have to say, possibly even learning from different things they might have dealt
with. This makes his work easier to find as well as helps to promote different events and other promotions that he has running.
Again, I will quote our reading, " Even within our civilization, the same types of texts have not always required authors..." I think that this really sums up the topic that not every story is in need of a name on it. Looking back on more simplistic times where money was not everything and credit does not mean plastering your name everywhere - Post Secret thrives on this.
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