Update Culture and the Afterlife of Digital Writing explores neglected circulatory writing processes to better understand why and how digital writers compose revise and deliver arguments that undergo sometimes constant revision. John R. Gallagher also looks at how digital writers respond to comments develop a brand and evolve their argumentsall postpublication. ampnbsp With the advent of easytouse websites ordinary people have become internet writers disseminating their texts to large audiences. Social media sites enable writers audiences to communicate back to the them instantly and often. Even professional writers work within interfaces that place comments adjacent to their text privileging the audiences voice. Thus writers face the prospect of attending to their writing after they deliver their initial arguments. Update Culture and the Afterlife of Digital Writing describes the conditions that encourage published texts to be revisited. It demonstratesthrough forty case studies of Amazon reviewers redditors and established journalistshow writers consider the timing attention and management of their writing under these everevolving conditions. ampnbsp Online culture from social media to blog posts requires a responsiveness to readers that is rarely duplicated in print and requires writers to consistently reread edit and update texts a process often invisible to readers. This book takes questions of circulation online and shows via interviews with both writers and participatory audience members that writing studies must contend with writings afterlife. It will be of interest to researchers scholars and students of writing studies and the fields of rhetoric communication education technical communication digital writing and social media as well as all content creators interested in learning how to create more effective posts comments replies and reviews.