ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the most significant developments of Gerard Genette's framework in the two disciplines that can be argued to have developed the concept of the paratext most intensely, namely digital studies and media studies. It introduces some of the terminology developed by scholars of digital literature in an effort to answer Genette's remaining three questions: where, when, and, most crucially, from whom. In the context of digital literature, however, the more open interpretation of authorship and authorisation leads critics to include features that serve a primarily commercial function in their analyses of the paratext. One of the most obvious differences between the digital literary context and the traditional print context is the level of interactivity associated with the paratext. In the digital milieu, it is editorialisation which 'makes a text accessible and determines its context', rather than the traditional print publisher, working in collaboration with or in the interests of the author, as in Genette's model.
