[Air-L] Are 'categories' the same as 'genres'?

Alex Primo alex.primo at mac.com
Mon Jan 16 09:39:44 PST 2012


"Genres in the Internet", edited by Janet Giltrow and Dieter Stein, is an excellent book on the theme. It brings a fine collection of chapters ranging from rhetorical to literary perspectives.

Best,

Alex Primo




On 16/01/2012, at 13:59, Mark Rosso wrote:

> Some resources you could check out regarding web genres:
> Web Genre Wiki - http://www.webgenrewiki.org/index.php5/Main_Page
> The WebGenre Blog - http://www.forum.santini.se/
> Genres on the Web - http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/book/978-90-481-9177-2
> User-based identification of Web genres -
> http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.20798/abstract
> 
> 
> Mark Rosso, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor
> Computer Information Systems
> School of Business
> North Carolina Central University
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> 
> On 12-Jan-2012, at 12:28 PM, air-l-request at listserv.aoir.org wrote:
> 
>> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:16:37 -0800
>> From: "Ravindra N. Mohabeer" <mohabeerlists at gmail.com>
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>> Hello,
>> 
>> Forgive me if this has been covered previously but a thought occurred to me just now as I prepped for my night course (yuck!) called "Understanding Television."
>> 
>> I wondered how students today make sense of the notion of 'genre' and then I thought, well since most of them don't watch TV over the air (or cable or satellite) and get TV shows online (a whole other issue as to whether or not that's the same as watching TV), it makes sense to think of it in digital terms.
>> 
>> So then I got to thinking, how do genres get represented on the Internet - through database categories used for indexing? Through site producers file structures? Through tagging? If so, how do we deal with the semantic arbitrariness of tagging between individual users?
>> 
>> Even if categories are what can be considered genres today, do the different types of content that appear on various manifestations of the Internet fall into the same categories as other 'traditional media'? What are the genres in the age of the Internet and are they same as they ever were or altogether new?
>> 
>> In this case it's just a question out of curiosity.
>> 
>> Ravi
>> ---------------------------------------
>> Ravindra N. Mohabeer, PhD
>> Media Studies
>> Vancouver Island University
>> Nanaimo, BC CANADA
>> ravindra.mohabeer at viu.ca
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