Questions: How do new content creators and writers focus on how their target audiences perceive them without putting too much energy into the possible sorting and distribution of their content. Would focusing on algorithms take away from the effective or purpose of the content? As a writer or content creator, is thinking about algorithms similar…
I don’t think I’ve ever explicitly thought of web writing as something different from other types of writing, but rather I feel like I’ve always silently accepted and not questioned the vast differences between the two. As a creative writer, I often loathe the ease the internet brings to the field of publishing. It becomes…
Questions: John R. Gallagher argues that students because are gearing their projects toward their teachers, that teachers need to be showing their students how to address other audiences. Gallagher gives us an example of this through how he taught his own class with blogs. In what ways did his teaching methods work to teach the…
Before reading Writing for Algorithmic Audiences, I knew very little about algorithms. My knowledge was pretty much limited to the fact that they’re some sort of code that determines what items show up in the “you might like these” bar at the bottom of my screen when I am online shopping. I found it interesting that algorithms…
When I read the title, “Writing for Algorithmic Audiences,” I got scared. Math? I thought. I chose this major to get away from math. Why is there math? But I should have known Dr. Lang wouldn’t subject me to that kind of thinking. The phrase algorithmic audience is used “to capture the tension between human…
Is it more important to consider the personal audience (those who consume), or the algorithmic audience when publishing digitally? How is each audience important in dictating the final product? If the algorithmic audience becomes the more dominant and deciding audience in terms of digital publishing, will the need for writers fall as computers learn/are programed…
John Gallagher introduces the concept of writing for algorithmic audiences, which he argues is really writing for algorithmic procedures (Gallagher 25). However, I think a more clarified explanation this would be writing for the algorithms that your audience is most likely to interact with. For example, content created specifically for teachers should have keywords like…
Before reading this article, I had a somewhat negative view of algorithms. For me personally, when I think about algorithms, I think of how awful everyone thinks Instagram’s is. While the algorithms mentioned in Gallagher’s article are obviously very helpful and useful for marketing, I do think that this is something a lot of people…
In the current digital age, writer and producer roles are no longer separate. As John Gallagher says in “Writing for Algorithmic Audiences,” writers are now acting as content producers, “circulating content on various social media platforms, monitoring website analytics, curating metadata, managing comments, and recirculating older writing to new venues” (25). As such, it’s never…
How can we, as writers/publishers, start thinking about audiences not only as people we want to read/view our text, but also as the end to steps of algorithmic processes (or, how do we break down how our audience sees our work into a more straightforward-forward way? I’m not sure if this questions makes sense…) Is…