Genres in the Internet
Issues in the theory of genre
Published on 28. October 2009
Book
Hardback
294 pages
978-90-272-5433-7 (ISBN)
Description
This volume brings together for the first time pragmatic, rhetorical, and literary perspectives on genre, mapping theoretical frontiers and initiating a long overdue conversation amongst these methodologies. The diverse approaches represented in this volume meet on common ground staked by Internet communication: an arena challenging to traditional ideas of genre which assume a conventional stability at odds with the unceasing innovations of online discourse. Drawing on and developing new ideas of genre, the research reported in this volume shows, on the contrary, that genre study is a powerful means of testing commonplaces about the Internet world and, in turn, that the Internet is a fertile field for theorising genre.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
725 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-5433-7 (9789027254337)
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Content
1. Preface; 2. Genres in the Internet: Innovation, evolution, and genre theory (by Giltrow, Janet); 3. Re-fusing form in genre study (by Devitt, Amy J.); 4. Lies at Wal-Mart: Style and the subversion of genre in the Life at Wal-Mart blog (by Puschmann, Cornelius); 5. Situating the public social actions of blog posts (by Grafton, Kathryn); 6. "Working consensus" and the rhetorical situation: The homeless blog's negotiation of public meta-genre (by Maurer, Elizabeth G.); 7. Brave new genre, or generic colonialism?: Debates over ancestry in Internet diaries (by McNeill, Laurie); 8. Online, multimedia case studies for professional education: Revisioning concepts of genre recognition (by Russell, David); 9. Nation, book, medium: New technologies and their genres (by Burgess, Miranda); 10. Critical genres: Generic changes of literary criticism in computer-mediated communication (by Domsch, Sebastian); 11. A model for describing 'new' and 'old' properties of CMC genres: The case of digital folklore (by Heyd, Theresa); 12. Questions for genre theory from the blogosphere (by Miller, Carolyn R.); 13. Index