Experiments in digital creation.

Over the course of week one, we covered two readings: Cummings “Introduction to Machine Rhetorics” and Ridolfo and DeVoss’ Composing for Recompostion. Starting with Cummings work, I found that the strongest leading points revolved around how AI is going to continue to grow and impact our lives. In the class, the biggest questions suggested how…

In the world of writing, the ever evolving technologies- like the internet and AI- have so much influence over the way our writing is being shaped. The internet is providing individuals with different formats to communicate, and AI has become a tool that sparks a lot of controversy based on its use. As someone who…

Jim Ridolfo and Dànielle DeVoss, in their article “Composing for Recomposition: Rhetorical Velocity and Delivery,” define “rhetorical velocty” as “a conscious rhetorical concern for distance, travel, speed, and time, pertaining specifically to theorizing instances of strategic appropriation by a third party.” I understood that as a fancy way to say “purposeful writing that thinks about…

AI and Cummings Week two brought me a lot closer to understanding AI and the methods in which it is used and studied. Before these readings, I was an avid AI hater. I say this coming from the perspective of a creative writer. The first time I heard of AI was in response to authors…

“Composing for Recomposition” One of the topics that I found interesting in this week’s discussion was the concept of writing for rewriting. Essentially, anything a person writes on the Internet is bound to be rewritten or repurposed in some way. In Jim Ridolfo and Danielle DeVoss’s “Composing for Recomposition: Rhetorical Velocity and Delivery,” it’s said…

Ridolfo and DeVoss: “Composing for Recomposition: Rhetorical Velocity and Delivery” It was intriguing to learn from Ridolfo and DeVoss’ article how creators today must think so far ahead when it comes to the content they make, particularly regarding rhetorical velocity. They have to consider how their work can be used and remixed by others in…

Welcome rhetors, writers, and readers! Over the next couple of months, I will be posting my thoughts and concerns about different writing practices, articles, texts, devices, and rhetoric in general. These posts may take shape in many different forms, so be on the lookout for some fun experimentation! This week is on AI and Intertextuality.…

For the first couple of reading assignments of the semester, we read two pieces: one from Cummings, and one from Ridolfo and DeVoss. Both of these pieces reveal important things about AI and delivering a message The Cummings piece brings up an interesting point that I want to discuss: it refers to AI as our…

The world is constantly spinning, with new technologies emerging in the blink of an eye—a controversial one being AI. Conversations around artificial intelligence have evolved and adapted over time, more recently about the specific rhetorical surrounding AI. In Cummings’ words: “Machine rhetoric is the study of the available means of machine persuasion that looks beyond…

If Coding is for Geeks I can Only Assume This is Worse (Kidding) Have you ever wanted to code computers without coding computers? Have you ever fought with Microsoft Word so hard that you wanted to throw your computer across the room or out a window? If you answered yes to one or more questions…