Chris Rodley is a writer for new media and a PhD candidate in Digital Cultures at the University of Sydney. His research is examining the impact of big data on poetics, with a focus on how the ability to find and remix digital information in real time is transforming relationships between texts, writers and readers. He is co-author of a book chapter in The Future of Writing (2014), with Andrew Burrell, and has also written for Guardian Australia and BuzzFeed.