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Writing Futures: Collaborative, Algorithmic, Autonomous

  • Provides a future-driven framework for investigating and planning for the social, digital literacy, and civic implications of collaborative, algorithmic, and autonomous writing futures and interrogates aspects of authorship and agency in the age of machine learning
  • Offers readers with the ability to write alongside non-human actors, understand the impact of algorithms and AI on writing, accommodate the unique relationships with autonomous agents, and investigate and plan for their writing futures
  • Serves unique in its integration with Fabric of Digital Life which comprises tools, a database, and a structured content repository for conducting social and cultural analysis about emerging technologies and the social practices that surround them
  • Is multimodal, including diagrams, tables, screenshots, and links to videos (and augmented reality) to engage readers with understanding of emerging technologies and envisioning writing futures

Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI, volume 969)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Writing Futures Framework

    • Ann Hill Duin, Isabel Pedersen
    Pages 1-26
  3. Collaborative Writing Futures

    • Ann Hill Duin, Isabel Pedersen
    Pages 27-52
  4. Algorithmic Writing Futures

    • Ann Hill Duin, Isabel Pedersen
    Pages 53-84
  5. Autonomous Writing Futures

    • Ann Hill Duin, Isabel Pedersen
    Pages 85-107
  6. Writing Futures: Investigations

    • Ann Hill Duin, Isabel Pedersen
    Pages 109-139
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 141-162

About this book

This book is useful to understand and write alongside non-human agents, examine the impact of algorithms and AI on writing, and accommodate relationships with autonomous agents. This ground-breaking future-driven framework prepares scholars and practitioners to investigate and plan for the social, digital literacy, and civic implications arising from emerging technologies. This book prepares researchers, students, practitioners, and citizens to work with AI writers, virtual humans, and social robots. This book explores prompts to envision how fields and professions will change. The book’s unique integration with Fabric of Digital Life, a database and structured content repository for conducting social and cultural analysis of emerging technologies, provides concrete examples throughout. Readers gain imperative direction for collaborative, algorithmic, and autonomous writing futures.


Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Writing Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

    Ann Hill Duin

  • Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, Canada

    Isabel Pedersen

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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