Principles of Web Authoring – An Outline
Ed. Note: The author’s goal – in developing the following outline – is to arrive, ideally, at a comfortable definition of “Web Authoring”, with the comfortable definition being defined with – ideally – some qualities of philosophical abstraction, of perceived accuracy in an estimate of the author’s own previous experiences in online media, and of a manner of academic objectivity as with regards to any manners of broader social, commercial, political, and/or practical theories.
- Concept: Arbitrary Readers
- Audience may be Implicitly “Unknown”
- Personal Identities
- Social Agendas
- Perceived roles of “Audience Member” as”Stakeholder,” “Participant,” and/or “Audience”
- “Other Authors” may or may not be “Known,” to any extent of perceived social and/or personal identity
- A naive premise of a goal in web authoring: “Appeal to existing knowledge”
- Contrast: Knowledge, ideas,meanings, and perceptions
- Of readers
- Of authors
- Contrast:
- Scientific knowledge
- Anecdotal ideas
- Perception, Whims, and Wishing
- “Creative license”
- Contrast: Knowledge, ideas,meanings, and perceptions
- Game Theory as an Abstraction of Social Interactions, On- and Offline
- Audience may be Implicitly “Unknown”
- Concept: Arbitrary Interactions
- Concept: Web as “Dialogue Space”
- Concept: Web as “Social Space”
- Concept: Social aspects of Online Interactions as effectively subsumed by aspects of the Social Spaces of Individual Actors in Online Dialogues
- Definition: Content
- Content as expression of style
- Content as expression of information
- Content and media – archival/bibliographical classifications of media resources
- Concept: Content in Context
- Definition: Mathematics as Abstraction – Whitehead
- Technical content – e.g technical software documentation
- Commercial content – broadly, “Marketing”
- Academic content – e.g scholarly articles
- Creative content – broadly, “Arts”
- Concept: Logical abstraction of “Presented Content”
- Concept: Agenda as a Service
- Ideological Assumptions and Expressions in Online Content
- Social and Personal Perceptions
- Knowledge and Information
- Ideological Aims
- Prosperity and Practice
- “Thought Leadering” [Concept]
- Synonym: “Preaching”
- Ideological Preconceptions of Authors and of Readers
- Moral Assumptions and Moral Goals in Content Creation and Publishing – towards an arbitrary definition and/or perception of sense of social and/or individual morality
- Ye Olde Propagandisch
- Perceptions and Definitions of Social Class
- Social Class as Material State
- Social Class as Creative Expression
- Social Class as Non-Thing
- Nation States, Social Tribes, Cultures, and Folklore – towards an arbitrary characterization of Thematic Agendas in Social Structures
- Ideological Assumptions and Expressions in Online Content
- Concept: Commodification of Online Content Information
- Data Mining as Institutional Practice
- Lexical Analysis – Structures of Langauges
- Ontology – Structural Definitions of Concepts, Categories of Concepts, and Conceptual Relations of Concepts
- Institutions as Actors – Commercial and Noncommercial Institutions – Methods and Goals
- Commodity-Oriented Analytical Models in Online Data Analysis – Definitions and Semantics
- Commercial Advertising
- Social/Political Analysis
- Information Search and Retrieval
- Data Mining as Institutional Practice
- Concept: Web as a Publishing Service
- Contrast: Web as a Marketing Service
- Contrast: Web as a Dialogue Service
- Contrast: Web as a Commercial Service
- Contrast: Online Gaming