Reproduced and emergent genres of communication on the World-Wide Web

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by Kevin Crowston , Marie Williams

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TITLE	Reproduced and emergent genres of communication on the World-Wide Web	INFERENCE
AUTHOR NAME	Kevin Crowston	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, Syracuse	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR ADDR	New York, USA	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR NAME	Marie Williams	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	; Web Architechs, Syracuse; Studies, Syracuse University	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR ADDR	; New York, USA; Syracuse, NY 13244-4100, USA.; 201	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
ABSTRACT	The World Wide Web is growing quickly and being applied to many new types of communications. As a basis for studying organizational communications, Yates and Orlikowski (1992; Orlikowski & Yates, 1994) proposed using genres. They de � ned genres as “typi� ed communicative actions characterized by similar substance and form and taken in response to recurrent situations ” (Yates & Orlikowski, 1992, p. 299). They further suggested that communications in a new media would show both reproduction and adaptation of existing communicative genres as well as the emergence of new genres. We studied these phenomena on the World Wide Web by examining 1000 randomly selected Web pages and categorizing the type of genre represented. Although many pages recreated genres familiar from traditional media, we also saw examples of genres being adapted to take advantage of the linking and interactivity of the new medium and novel genres emerging to � t the unique communicative needs of the audience. We suggest that Web-site designers consider the genres that are appropriate for their situation and attempt to reproduce or adapt familiar genres.	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
YEAR	1997	INFERENCE
VENUE	The Information Society	INFERENCE
VENUE TYPE	CONFERENCE	INFERENCE
PAGES	30--39	INFERENCE
VOLUME	16	INFERENCE
CITATIONS	26 found	ParsCit 1.0