Tim Laquintano: Writing With Machines

"Writing with Machines"

From trolls to privacy concerns, digital writers face problems that were relatively scarce in the age of print. Networked computing has placed powerful communicative tools in the hands of ordinary people. But those tools have forced us to renegotiate boundaries of public and private, to wonder about the relevance of different communications media, and to distribute our attention, sometimes haphazardly, amid an onslaught of information.  This talk considers the consequences of writing with machines by examining two questions shaping the trajectory of writing in the twenty-first century: What is the value of writing in environments saturated with competing media? And how do writers adjust to the presence of machine audiences that read their writing along with human audiences?