Genres In The Internet: Issues In The Theory Of Genre (pragmatics And Beyond New Series)

Genres In The Internet : Innovation, Evolution, And Genre Theory / Janet Giltrow & Dieter Stein -- Re-fusing Form In Genre Study / Amy J. Devitt -- Lies At Wal-mart : Style And The Subversion Of Genre In The Life At Wal-mart Blog / Cornelius Puschmann -- Situating The Public Social Actions Of Blog Posts / Kathryn Grafton -- Working Consensus And The Rhetorical Situation : The Homeless Blog's Negotiation Of Public Meta-genre / Elizabeth G. Maurer -- Brave New Genre, Or Generic Colonialism? Debates Over Ancestry In Internet Diaries / Laurie Mcneill -- Online, Multimedia Case Studies For Professional Education : Revisioning Concepts Of Genre Recognition / David R. Russell & David Fisher -- Nation, Book, Medium : New Technologies And Their Genres / Miranda Burgess -- Critical Genres : Generic Changes Of Literary Criticism In Computer-mediated Communication / Sebastian Domsch -- A Model For Describing 'new' And 'old' Properties Of Cmc Genres : The Case Of Digital Folklore / Theresa Heyd -- Questions For Genre Theory From The Blogosphere / Carolyn R. Miller & Dawn Shepherd. Edited By Janet Giltrow, Dieter Stein. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Genres in the Internet......Page 1 Editiorial page......Page 2 Title page......Page 3 LCC data......Page 4 Table of contents......Page 5 List of contributors......Page 7 Preface......Page 9 Genres in the Internet......Page 11 1. Issues in defining genre......Page 12 2. How are Internet genres different from written and spoken genres?......Page 18 3. This collection......Page 24 References......Page 33 1. Introduction......Page 37 2. Fusing form into action......Page 38 3. Contextualizing form into utterances......Page 41 4. Sketching four principles of form in generic practice......Page 43 4.1 The forms of genres are meaningful only within their full contexts—cultural, social, and individual......Page 45 4.2 The forms of genres range widely and cannot be pinned down with closed or static descriptions......Page 49 4.3 The forms of genres vary with each unique instance of the genre, but unique instances share common generic forms......Page 52 4.4 The forms of genres are inter-genre-al, interacting with forms of other genres......Page 54 5. Concluding in a different form......Page 55 References......Page 56 1. (Ab)usability as an indicator of genre......Page 59 2. Personal blogs, corporate blogs and the blog prototype......Page 61 3. Life at Wal-Mart: Context and presentation......Page 71 4. Author vs. publisher status......Page 74 5.1 The crisis/incident account (A)......Page 76 5.2 The career/life story (B)......Page 80 5.3 The opinion piece (C)......Page 81 5.4 The encounter with Mr. Sam (D)......Page 82 6. Linguistic features and functions......Page 83 6.1 Pronoun use......Page 84 6.2 Tense, aspect and narrativity......Page 86 7. Conclusion......Page 89 8. Index of cited blog entries......Page 91 References......Page 93 1. Introduction: Social actions of blog posts......Page 95 2. Theoretical approach: Situational rhetoric, publics, and uptake......Page 96 3. The blog post’s negotiation of differently situated exigencies......Page 98 3.1 The post and situational rhetoric......Page 99 3.2 The post and publics......Page 102 3.4 The post as materialization of the self......Page 104 4. Examining blog posts: The materialization of public readers......Page 105 4.1 Rhetorical situations of Canada Reads......Page 106 4.2 New additions”: Refining a portrait of self as public reader......Page 108 4.3 Addicted to reading”: Addressing a trio of situations......Page 111 4.4 Discussion forum”: Acting on dual exigencies of self and public expression......Page 112 5. Summary and further considerations......Page 115 References......Page 117 “Working consensus” and the rhetorical situation......Page 123 2. Diaries and cardboard signs: New rhetorical situations and “antecedent genres”......Page 124 Street newspapers and tip jars: Resisting uptakes......Page 130 3. New and improved: Innovation and evolution in theories of online genre......Page 132 4. Public meta-genre and face-work......Page 137 Subjectivity and antecedent genres as constraint......Page 140 "Working consensus”: Provisional agreement as exigence......Page 142 Monitoring disruption: Genre evolution......Page 145 5. Conclusions......Page 147 References......Page 149 1. Introduction......Page 153 2. Blogs by any other name: Generic history and definitions......Page 156 3. The familiar within the strange: The diary in cyberspace......Page 164 4. Conclusion......Page 168 References......Page 169 1. Introduction......Page 173 2. Addressing the problem of genre transfer: Current trends......Page 174 3. Revisioning transfer: Computer-mediated simulation of genre systems......Page 176 3.1 Simulation to enable typification and attribution......Page 177 3.2 Simulation to enable immersion in “professional” space and time......Page 179 4. Developing a simulated genre system......Page 180 4.1 Simulated chronotope: Generic space and time......Page 181 4.1.1 Evoking space......Page 182 4.1.2 Evoking time......Page 185 4.2 Affordances and constraints of simulated space......Page 189 4.2.1 Space for Action......Page 190 4.2.2 Sharing location......Page 191 4.3 Affordances and constraints of simulated time......Page 193 5. Studying simulated genre systems......Page 196 6. Conclusion......Page 198 References......Page 199 1. Introduction......Page 203 2. Genre: Model, method, theory......Page 205 3.1. Meta-media: The scholarship on new media, 1991–2000......Page 209 3.2 New media: The net.goths and their websites in the 1990s......Page 213 3.3 New media and meta-media, 1790–1820s: Walter Scott’s situation......Page 217 4. The genre of new media history......Page 223 References......Page 226 1. Introduction......Page 231 2. The fundamental antagonism of literary criticism as a genre......Page 233 3. Criticism’s migration to the internet......Page 237 5. A look at the consumer review......Page 240 6. Criticism and consumerism: You are what you consume......Page 245 References......Page 247 1. Introduction......Page 249 2.1 Formal/functional, micro/macro, horizontal/vertical: Some parameters in genre theory......Page 251 2.2 Genre studies in CMC: The old/new dilemma......Page 255 3. The case study: Email hoaxes as a candidate for genre status......Page 257 4. Digital folklore: Outline of a genre ecology......Page 260 4.1.2 DF reinforces the digital social networks through which it is transmitted......Page 261 4.2 Officelore as an antecedent of DF......Page 262 4.3 Formally defined subgenres of DF: A glance at the genre ecology......Page 263 4.4 Summary: DF as a hybrid genre......Page 268 5. Outlook: Extending the analysis......Page 269 References......Page 270 1. Introduction......Page 273 2. Re-examining the personal blog......Page 276 3. Exploring the public affairs blog......Page 281 4. Discerning genres on the internet......Page 290 References......Page 296 Index......Page 301 The Pragmatics & Beyond New Series......Page 305 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 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. 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