ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the specifics of gendering digitally social spaces, the role of gendered relationships within the discourse, and where the gender dynamic in these communities and the wider industry creates new disruptions for the book and allows new statements to arise within the archive. In order to argue this, Rebecca Sky’s Wattpad book Arrowheart is introduced as a case study. The gendering of the readers and commenters on the work highlights the gendered dynamic around what readers and authors are considering to be a book, and how those books can develop and evolve in digitally social spaces. The unique place of female-identifying citizen authors within the discourse allows them to use their access to the global village to go on to challenge the role of genre in the publishing industry and in online communities.
