Writing Futures: Collaborative, Algorithmic, Autonomous

✍ Scribed by Ann Hill Duin; Isabel Pedersen

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Contents
About the Authors
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Writing Futures Framework
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Integration with Fabric of Digital Life
1.3 Tracing the Future of Writing
1.4 Past Studies, Future Speculation
1.5 The Writing Futures Framework
1.6 Overview of Chapters
References
Intertext—The Future of Writing and Rhetoric: Pitch by Pitch by Scott Sundvall, The University of Memphis
References
2 Collaborative Writing Futures
2.1 How Will Writers Collaborate?
2.1.1 Foundational Scholarship on Collaboration
2.1.2 Socio-technological Construction of Knowledge
2.1.3 Collaborative Workspaces
2.2 What Digital Literacies Will Writers Need to Enable Constructive, Collaborative Work with Nonhuman Agents?
2.3 What Civic Challenges Demand Collaborative, Constructive Social Action Through and with Nonhuman Agents?
References
Intertext—Writing Machines and Rhetoric by Heidi McKee and James Porter, Miami University
References
3 Algorithmic Writing Futures
3.1 How Will Algorithms and AI Inform Writing?
3.1.1 Understanding Algorithms
3.1.2 Platform Studies
3.1.3 Demographics
3.1.4 Algorithmic AI
3.2 What AI Literacies Should We Cultivate for Algorithmic Writing Futures?
3.2.1 Learning Analytics and Learning Management Systems
3.3 How Might AI Help to Recognize, Ameliorate, and Address Global Civic Challenges?
3.3.1 Writing for Ethically Aligned Design, Moving from Principles to Practice
References
Intertext—Recoding Relationships by Jennifer Keating, University of Pittsburgh, and Illah Reza Nourbakhsh, Carnegie Mellon University
References
4 Autonomous Writing Futures
4.1 How Will Writers Work with Autonomous Agents?
4.1.1 The Rise of Virtual Assistants
4.1.2 AI Writing
4.1.3 Creative AI
4.2 How Will Literacy Practices Change with Use of Autonomous Agents?
4.3 What Affordances of Autonomous Agents Lend Themselves to More Ethical, Personal, Professional, Global, and Pedagogical Deployments?
4.3.1 Fairness and Non-discrimination
4.3.2 AI Explainability and Transparency
References
5 Writing Futures: Investigations
5.1 Imagining the Future
5.1.1 Trust and Technological Leadership
5.2 Methods/Methodologies/Approaches for Investigating and Planning for Writing Futures
5.3 Academic, Industry, and Civic Investigations
5.3.1 Academic Realm
5.3.2 Industry Realm
5.3.3 Civic Realm
5.4 Imagining Writing Futures
References
Appendix A: Course Syllabus for a Graduate-Level Course, Writing Futures—Collaborative, Algorithmic, Autonomous
Writing Futures: Collaborative, Algorithmic, Autonomous
Course Description, Outcomes, Framework
Learning Outcomes—Writing Futures Framework
Assignments
Course Schedule and Readings
Module One—Weeks 1 & 2—Writing Futures; Emerging Technologies; Rhetorical Speculations
Module Two—Weeks 3–5—Collaboration/Digital Literacy
Module Three—Weeks 6–8—Algorithms/Artificial Intelligence/Ethics
Module Four—Weeks 9–11—Autonomous Agents/Ethics
Module Five—Weeks 12–13—Investigations
Module Six—Weeks 14–15—Integrating Visions for the Future
Appendix B: Complete List of General Keywords in Writing Futures Collection with Counts