Abstract: The character of authorship, evaluation, canonization and production of artworks is altering in new communication technologies. A mass of amateur and participatory works and reviews is challenging the existing symbolic and economic structure of the field. This article focuses on the function and the workings of an online digital community of amateur authors, considering the community as a network with actors. Drawing from the field of literary sociology and of cyber-ethnography, a qualitative analysis is made of the online exchanges between 2001 and 2004.
