In this course we’ll take up digitally mediated writing as something that is always read by multiple audiences—human and nonhuman both. Throughout the semester, we’ll consider computers, computation, and code as objects of inquiry, and we’ll explore how we’re always writing within a complex ecology of systems, programs, platforms, software, hardware, human, and nonhuman actors. When we write, we’re always writing with, alongside, and through this ecology, and we’ll consider what impact this entanglement has on our writing and thinking. We’ll explore it through a diverse array of texts and ask how these different texts—print and electronic, argument and narrative—demand different methods of understanding. Students will be required to compose traditional and multimodal compositions. We’ll analyze code from both a critical and functional perspectives and explore what aspects and methods of code we can draw inspiration from and engage in academic writing. This course does not require any prior experience with programming languages, but students should expect to engage with programming and/or markup.