Principles of Web Authoring – An Outline

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”
    • Game Theory as an Abstraction of Social Interactions, On- and Offline
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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