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I just finished watching The Machine is Us/ing Us, a brilliant look at the way the Internet has changed writing. It opens with a pencil scribbling on paper and ends with text being fed into Wikipedia.

Besides being a great history lesson, the movie points out: "We'll need to re-think a few things: copyright, authorship, identity, ethics, aesthetics." But these aren't bloggers or computer science professors talking. These are anthropologists.

The video was created by the Digital Ethnography project evolving at Kansas State University. It got me thinking--anthropologists making careers by thinking about this cultural shift. Who are the novelists writing about it? Let's make a list in the comments section, so we can start writing about these earthshaking changes in our own work...