Annemarie Ní Churreáin speaks to the C21 Editions project about the role of social media in writing

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Prof. Bridgette Wessels speaks to Irish poet Annemarie Ní Churreáin for the C21 Editions project, which is exploring how born-digital content like social media might be included in digital scholarly editions. Prof. Wessels and Annemarie explore what it means to be w rite in the age of social media. Bridgette Wessels is Professor of Sociology at the University of Glasgow. Her research focuses on the development and use of digital technology and services in social and cultural life. This includes digital services and communication in the public sphere, everyday life and civic life, social and digital inequalities, as well as specific areas such as telehealth, mobile communication and privacy in digital communication. Annemarie Ní Churreáin is a poet from the Donegal Gaeltacht. Her books include Bloodroot (Doire Press, 2017), Town (The Salvage Press, 2018) and The Poison Glen (The Gallery Press, 2021). She is the poetry editor at The Stinging Fly magazine. C21 Editions is an international collaboration between University College Cork, the Digital Humanities Institute at the University of Sheffield, and the University of Glasgow. The project seeks to explore and make a direct contribution to the future of digital scholarly editing and digital publishing. The project was funded under the UK-Ireland Collaboration in the Digital Humanities, a joint initiative of the Irish Research Council (IRC) and the United Kingdom's Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).