Towards a Computational Theory of Digital Genre (I): Working Definition of Genres for Computational Purposes by Marina Santini – Last Updated: 29 Oct 2012 1. What is a (textual) genre? • A genre is a class of texts with similar…
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Towards Language–Independent Web Genre Detection (2009)
Poster paper by : Philipp Scholl, Renato Domínguez García, Doreen Böhnstedt, Christoph Rensing, Ralf Steinmetz The term web genre denotes the type of a given web resource, in contrast to the topic of its content. In this research, we focus…
Recasting the blog as a collection of blog posts
Draft. Kathryn Grafton, Situating the public social actions of blog posts, in Janet Giltrow and Dieter Stein (eds) Genres in the Internet, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009. The chapter by Kathryn Grafton focuses on the social actions of blog posts,…
Flogs, i.e. the subversion of the blog genre
Cornelius Puschmann, Lies at Wal-Mart, in Janet Giltrow and Dieter Stein (eds) Genres in the Internet, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009. The chapter by Cornelius Puschmann presents a novel and stimulating analysis of an emerging faux genre in a lively…
Re-fusing form in genre study by Amy J. Devitt (2009) II
Continued. Amy J. Devitt, Re-fusing form in genre study, in Janet Giltrow and Dieter Stein (eds) Genres in the Internet, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009 … I am not sure that I completely agree on the importance of the “content”,…
Re-fusing form in genre study by Amy J. Devitt (2009) I
Amy J. Devitt, Re-fusing form in genre study, in Janet Giltrow and Dieter Stein (eds) Genres in the Internet, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009 The chapter Re-fusing form in genre study by Amy J. Devitt has a very clear mission:…