DHC Friends, Robert Lang and Kasside Sahagun-Escalante chat with Mark Marino. Mark is a writer and scholar of digital literature living in Los Angeles. He is a Full Professor (Teaching) at the University of Southern California where he directs the Humanities and Critical Code Studies (HoCCS) Lab, which pursues collaborations with computer scientists in developing methodologies for humanities-based explorations of digital objects through the entry point of source code.

Dr. Marino's research focuses on conversational agents (chatbots), new media, emerging writing forms, instructional technology, game studies, social networking, selfies, fake news, contemporary writing practices and Critical Code Studies. He is the author of Critical Code Studies.