00420nas a2200145 4500008004100000020001600041245003000057210002800087260002200115300001100137100002100148700002000169700002100189856006400210 2003 eng d a 041528303500aOnline News: A New Genre?0 aOnline News A New Genre aLondonbRoutledge a95-1041 aLewis, Diana, M.1 aAitchison, Jean1 aLewis, Diana, M. uhttps://genreacrossborders.org/biblio/online-news-new-genre01174nas a2200121 4500008004100000245004100041210004100082300001000123490000700133520081800140100001900958856007500977 2011 eng d00aSocial Media as Communicative Genres0 aSocial Media as Communicative Genres a55-710 v273 a

As a focus of study, ‘social media’ tend to lack definitional clarity and grounding in theories of media and text. This paper establishes and discusses a conceptual framework for defining social media as communicative genres, constituted by the interplay between interactive functionalities configured at the software level and the invocation and appropriation of various software functionalities to achieve specific purposes in and through users’ actual communicative practices. I suggest that social media might be seen as particularly dynamic genres, subject to continuous disruption and uncertainty,owing to their deinstitutionalised and participatory character, and the shifting roles of producers and recipients in the networks and conversations that make up social media content.

1 aLomborg, Stine uhttp://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/mediekultur/article/view/401201379nas a2200109 4500008004100000245010100041210006900142490000700211520090400218100001901122856012801141 2001 eng d00a"Light Green Doesn't Mean Hydrology!": Toward a Visual-Rhetorical Framework for Interface Design0 aLight Green Doesnt Mean Hydrology Toward a VisualRhetorical Fram0 v183 a

The utility of metaphor as a visual–rhetorical design framework has diminished dramatically, and continues to erode. Metaphor has two important limitations as it is commonly applied in interface design: (a) metaphors are indexical, pointing to physical artifacts that they represent, and (b) metaphors are static, that is, unwavering in their indexicality. Both assumptions are demonstrably flawed. In this article, I first critically examine metaphor’s limitations as a visual–rhetorical framework for designing, evaluating, and critiquing user interfaces. Next, I outline an alternate framework for visual rhetoric, that of genre ecologies, and discuss how it avoids some of the limitations of metaphor. Finally, I use an empirical study of computer users to illustrate the genre-ecology framework and contrast it with metaphor.

1 aSpinuzzi, Clay uhttps://genreacrossborders.org/biblio/light-green-doesnt-mean-hydrology-toward-visual-rhetorical-framework-interface-design01381nas a2200109 4500008004100000245010100041210006900142490000700211520090400218100001901122856013001141 2001 eng d00a"Light Green Doesn't Mean Hydrology!": Toward a Visual-Rhetorical Framework for Interface Design0 aLight Green Doesnt Mean Hydrology Toward a VisualRhetorical Fram0 v183 a

The utility of metaphor as a visual–rhetorical design framework has diminished dramatically, and continues to erode. Metaphor has two important limitations as it is commonly applied in interface design: (a) metaphors are indexical, pointing to physical artifacts that they represent, and (b) metaphors are static, that is, unwavering in their indexicality. Both assumptions are demonstrably flawed. In this article, I first critically examine metaphor’s limitations as a visual–rhetorical framework for designing, evaluating, and critiquing user interfaces. Next, I outline an alternate framework for visual rhetoric, that of genre ecologies, and discuss how it avoids some of the limitations of metaphor. Finally, I use an empirical study of computer users to illustrate the genre-ecology framework and contrast it with metaphor.

1 aSpinuzzi, Clay uhttps://genreacrossborders.org/biblio/light-green-doesnt-mean-hydrology-toward-visual-rhetorical-framework-interface-design-000540nas a2200121 4500008004100000245010100041210006900142260001800211300001200229100001900241700002300260856013500283 2009 eng d00aLeveraging Mobile and Wireless Technologies in Qualitative Research: Some Half-Baked Suggestions0 aLeveraging Mobile and Wireless Technologies in Qualitative Resea bHampton Press a255-2731 aSpinuzzi, Clay1 aHea, Amy, C. Kimme uhttps://genreacrossborders.org/biblio/leveraging-mobile-and-wireless-technologies-qualitative-research-some-half-baked-suggestions00434nas a2200109 4500008004100000245006300041210005900104260003600163300001200199100002200211856009100233 2009 eng d00aA Story of One's Own: Social Constructions of Genre Online0 aStory of Ones Own Social Constructions of Genre Online aNew YorkbPeter Lang Publishing a121-1541 aWilliams, Bronwyn uhttps://genreacrossborders.org/biblio/story-ones-own-social-constructions-genre-online