Experiments in digital creation.

Love it or hate it, AI has infiltrated our everyday lives and it is here to stay. Technology has always been growing and the current state of it leaves people posing questions about the way it’s shaping our world. From the benefits to the consequences, the impacts are far too noticeable to ignore. ARE THERE…

In exploring the intersections of technology, content, and AI, there were three texts that we dove into; Kate Eichhorn’s “A Brief History of Content in a Digital Era,” Cory Doctorow’s “Network Effects vs. Switching Costs,” and Kate Crawford’s Atlas of AI. Each piece dissects the ways technology reshapes our relationship with information and power. Eichhorn…

This week we read and discussed the works from Eichhorn, Crawford, and Doctorow. Each scholar had something to say about the digital age in which we live. Eichhorn focused on content, Crawford emphasized AI, while Doctorow used Facebook as an example of evil within the internet. Content Eichhorn easily describes the basic definition of content,…

Cory Doctorow – “Network Effects vs. Switching Costs” Doctorow’s article felt like a shit post on Facebook. At the end, he states, “You don’t have to agree that Facebook is worse than Google or Apple to know that something needs to be done about Big Tech.” After having ranted about Facebook for so long, having…

Finding Content In Kate Eichhorn’s Ebook, Content1, she discusses the difficulties that lie in trying to define the word, ‘content,’ especially in regards to digital content. What is it? What does it do? Is it simply a container? What gets lost when we start to generalize and separate content? How can we pin it down?…

What the hell is “Rhetorical Velocity” even about? How do we see the “Amplification Effect” today? Especially with influencers/web celebrities? Intro to Machine Rhetoric poses AI rhetoric as a techne, or an art/craft. Is this reasonable or is AI rhetoric a tool? I really enjoyed the remix section from Ridolfo and DeVoss. Very cool. Remixing…

In my Digital Writing Class, we are talking about digital writing and how to successfully write and publish digitally. Our initial topics have been AI, Recomposition (remixing), and a markup language called markdown. I am going to go over my notes and highlight what I enjoyed from those topics here. AI Our discussion of AI…

In a recent article written by Lance Cummings, the topic of AI rhetoric has been brought to the forefront our minds: that being a Digital Writing class. Machine rhetoric, as he coined it, is the “study of the available means of machine persuasion.” In other words, how can writers tailor AI systems to benefit their…

The development of technology has changed the way we communicate. It has changed what we value within our communication as well.  Rhetoric is, to briefly explain, the delivery of a message. Historically, it has been undervalued since Aristotle (Ridolfo). We see in our phrases today, “He’s just using rhetoric.” We assume that someone extremely interested…

If you’re somehow reading this page, that means you discovered the digital writing site! Welcome! This site is tied to a college level writing class titled, as you can presume, Digital Writing. Over the next 12 weeks, my peers and I will be updating this site weekly with insights as to what texts we read…