Genres in the Internet

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Issues in the theory of genre

Janet Giltrow Dieter Stein(Herausgeber*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 28. Oktober 2009

IX, 294 Seiten

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Genres in the Internet
Editiorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
List of contributors
Preface
Genres in the Internet
1. Issues in defining genre
2. How are Internet genres different from written and spoken genres?
3. This collection
References
Re-fusing form in genre study
1. Introduction
2. Fusing form into action
3. Contextualizing form into utterances
4. Sketching four principles of form in generic practice
4.1 The forms of genres are meaningful only within their full contexts-cultural, social, and individual
4.2 The forms of genres range widely and cannot be pinned down with closed or static descriptions
4.3 The forms of genres vary with each unique instance of the genre, but unique instances share common generic forms
4.4 The forms of genres are inter-genre-al, interacting with forms of other genres
5. Concluding in a different form
References
Lies at Wal-Mart
1. (Ab)usability as an indicator of genre
2. Personal blogs, corporate blogs and the blog prototype
3. Life at Wal-Mart: Context and presentation
4. Author vs. publisher status
5. Thematic and formal classification of posts
5.1 The crisis/incident account (A)
5.2 The career/life story (B)
5.3 The opinion piece (C)
5.4 The encounter with Mr. Sam (D)
6. Linguistic features and functions
6.1 Pronoun use
6.2 Tense, aspect and narrativity
7. Conclusion
8. Index of cited blog entries
References
Situating the public social actions of blog posts
1. Introduction: Social actions of blog posts
2. Theoretical approach: Situational rhetoric, publics, and uptake
3. The blog post's negotiation of differently situated exigencies
3.1 The post and situational rhetoric
3.2 The post and publics
3.3 The post and uptake
3.4 The post as materialization of the self
4. Examining blog posts: The materialization of public readers
4.1 Rhetorical situations of Canada Reads
4.2 New additions": Refining a portrait of self as public reader
4.3 Addicted to reading": Addressing a trio of situations
4.4 Discussion forum": Acting on dual exigencies of self and public expression
5. Summary and further considerations
References
"Working consensus" and the rhetorical situation
1. Introduction
2. Diaries and cardboard signs: New rhetorical situations and "antecedent genres"
Street newspapers and tip jars: Resisting uptakes
3. New and improved: Innovation and evolution in theories of online genre
4. Public meta-genre and face-work
Subjectivity and antecedent genres as constraint
Working consensus": Provisional agreement as exigence
Monitoring disruption: Genre evolution
5. Conclusions
References
Brave new genre, or generic colonialism?
1. Introduction
2. Blogs by any other name: Generic history and definitions
3. The familiar within the strange: The diary in cyberspace
4. Conclusion
References
Online, multimedia case studies for professional education
1. Introduction
2. Addressing the problem of genre transfer: Current trends
3. Revisioning transfer: Computer-mediated simulation of genre systems
3.1 Simulation to enable typification and attribution
3.2 Simulation to enable immersion in "professional" space and time
4. Developing a simulated genre system
4.1 Simulated chronotope: Generic space and time
4.1.1 Evoking space
4.1.2 Evoking time
4.2 Affordances and constraints of simulated space
4.2.1 Space for Action
4.2.2 Sharing location
4.3 Affordances and constraints of simulated time
5. Studying simulated genre systems
6. Conclusion
References
Nation, book, medium
1. Introduction
2. Genre: Model, method, theory
3. New media histories: Three overviews
3.1. Meta-media: The scholarship on new media, 1991-2000
3.2 New media: The net.goths and their websites in the 1990s
3.3 New media and meta-media, 1790-1820s: Walter Scott's situation
4. The genre of new media history
5. Conclusion
References
Critical genres
1. Introduction
2. The fundamental antagonism of literary criticism as a genre
3. Criticism's migration to the internet
4. From citation to link, from judgment to judgment
5. A look at the consumer review
6. Criticism and consumerism: You are what you consume
References
A model for describing 'new' and 'old' properties of CMC genres
1. Introduction
2. Genre and digital discourse: Recent research perspectives
2.1 Formal/functional, micro/macro, horizontal/vertical: Some parameters in genre theory
2.2 Genre studies in CMC: The old/new dilemma
3. The case study: Email hoaxes as a candidate for genre status
4. Digital folklore: Outline of a genre ecology
4.1 DF as a functional category
4.1.1 DF exploits the technicalities of its socio-technical mode
4.1.2 DF reinforces the digital social networks through which it is transmitted
4.1.3 DF provides easily available material of a reportable nature
4.1.4 DF creates and reinforces split audience patterns
4.2 Officelore as an antecedent of DF
4.3 Formally defined subgenres of DF: A glance at the genre ecology
4.4 Summary: DF as a hybrid genre
5. Outlook: Extending the analysis
References
Questions for genre theory from the blogosphere
1. Introduction
2. Re-examining the personal blog
3. Exploring the public affairs blog
4. Discerning genres on the internet
Acknowledgment
References
Index
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