TY - BOOK T1 - Internet Society: The Internet in Everyday Life Y1 - 2005 A1 - Bakardjieva, Maria KW - agency KW - audience ethnography KW - Bakhtin KW - Feenberg KW - little behavior genre KW - Schutz KW - social construction of technology KW - use genre KW - user KW - Volosinov PB - Sage CY - London N1 - + ER - TY - BOOK T1 - The Ideology of Genre: A Comparative Study of Generic Instability Y1 - 1994 A1 - Beebee, Thomas O. KW - Althusser KW - ars dictaminis KW - Bakhtin KW - Derrida KW - evolution KW - genre KW - Jameson KW - literature KW - romance KW - speech act KW - Todorov KW - use-value KW - Western PB - Pennsylvania State University Press CY - University Park, PA SN - 0-271-02570-0 N1 - + ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Classification JF - Theory, Culture, & Society Y1 - 2006 A1 - Boyne, Roy KW - classification KW - identity KW - representation KW - subjectivity KW - universals VL - 23 SP - 21–50 N1 - + pdf ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Taking Up Space: On Genre Systems as Geographies of the Possible JF - JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory Y1 - 2008 A1 - Dryer, Dylan B KW - documentary society KW - genre system KW - land-use planning KW - uptake VL - 28 SP - 503–534 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The Persistence of Institutional Memory: Genre Uptake and Program Reform JF - Writing Program Administration Y1 - 2008 A1 - Dryer, Dylan B KW - genre KW - uptake VL - 3` SP - 32-51 ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Gestural Silence: An engagement device in the multimodal genre of the chalk talk lecture T2 - Engagement in professional genres: Disclosure and deference Y1 - 2019 A1 - Fogarty-Bourget, C. G. A1 - Artemeva, N. A1 - Fox, J. KW - engagement KW - genre KW - gestural silence KW - multimodality KW - university mathematics AB -

This chapter reports on a study of multimodal engagement strategies used by instructors while performing chalk talk, the genre of university mathematics lecture. Relying on multimodal data, the study examines how university mathematics instructors engage students in chalk talk through gestures, writing on the chalkboard, and speech. One of the engagement strategies identified in the study is the use of gestural silence, or the absence of the instructor’s hand movement, intended to engage students in doing mathematics. The study indicates that such multimodal engagement strategies appear to be shaped by the embodied nature of discipline-specific genres.

JA - Engagement in professional genres: Disclosure and deference PB - John Benjamins CY - Amsterdam SP - 277-296 ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Situating the Public Social Actions of Blog Posts T2 - Genres in the Internet: Issues in the Theory of Genre Y1 - 2009 A1 - Grafton, Kathryn KW - blog KW - Canada KW - genre KW - literature KW - public KW - uptake JA - Genres in the Internet: Issues in the Theory of Genre PB - Benjamins CY - Amsterdam SP - 85-111 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Engaging with and Arranging for Publics in Blog Genres JF - Linguistics and the Human Sciences Y1 - 2007 A1 - Grafton, Kathryn A1 - Maurer, Elizabeth KW - blog KW - community KW - genre KW - meta-genre KW - public KW - uptake AB - In this paper, we take a rhetorical approach to weblogs, examining two sets of blogs:blogs responding to a national literary event called Canada Reads and ‘homeless blogs’. Taking up Miller and Shepherd’s proposal (2004) that the exigence of the blog is self cultivation and validation, we examine how such an exigence may be met, not through entering and building community, but engaging with and arranging for recognition in what Michael Warner calls ‘discursive publics’ (2002:121). By focusing on uptake (Freadman 2002) as a public dynamic, we suggest how features of the blog such as blog posts and ‘meta-generic’ commentary (Giltrow 2002:192) about antecedent genres may enable a blogger to legitimate the self as an integral part and perpetuator of publics: a blogger’s uptake both actualizes a public (declaring membership), and imagines it anew (envisioning subsequent uptakes). VL - 3 SP - 47–66 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Convention and inventiveness in an occluded academic genre: A case study of retention–promotion–tenure reports JF - English for Specific Purposes Y1 - 2008 A1 - Hyon, Sunny KW - academic writing KW - occluded genre KW - uptake VL - 27 SP - 175–192 CP - 2 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - CMSs, Bittorrent Trackers and Large-Scale Rhetorical Genres: Analyzing Collective Activity in Participatory Digital Spaces JF - Journal of Technical Writing and Communication Y1 - 2016 A1 - Lewis, Justin KW - activity theory KW - CMS KW - content management system KW - digital tools KW - participatory archives KW - piracy KW - rhetorical genre studies KW - user-experience design KW - UX AB -

Scholars of rhetoric and writing have long recognized the mediated nature of rhetorical action. From Plato’s early indictments of writing as enemy of memoria to Burke’s recognition of instrumental causes to recent analyses of digital mediation (Haas 1996; Spinuzzi 2008; Swarts 2008; Ittersum and Ching 2013), the study of meaning-making refuses one-to-one, transparent theories of communication, instead recognizing that there’s more to rhetorical action than humans. This article follows the trail of Haas, Swarts and others, arguing that analyses of mediation uncover much about human motives, digital communities and rhetorical action. I argue that technologies often function as rhetorical genres, providing what Miller characterizes as “typified rhetorical actions based in recurrent situations” that occur in uniquely digital spaces (159). Working from sites of participatory archival creation and curation[1], I argue that invisible rhetorical genres operating at macroscopic levels of scale are central to shaping individual and communal activity in sites of distributed social production. To support this claim, I investigate two applications – a content management system (CMS) called Gazelle and a bittorrent tracker called Ocelot – to demonstrate how largely invisible server-side software shapes rhetorical action, circumscribes individual agency and cultivates community identity in sites of participatory archival curation. By articulating CMSs and other macroscopic software as rhetorical genres, I hope to extend nascent investigations into the medial capacities of digital tools that shape our collective digital experience.

VL - 46 UR - http://jtw.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/09/09/0047281615600634 CP - 1 ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Discourse Genres T2 - Verbal Communication Y1 - 2016 A1 - Miller, Carolyn R. A1 - Kelly, Ashley R. ED - A. Rocci ED - L. de Saussure KW - exigence KW - formalism KW - genre awareness KW - genre system KW - macrostructure KW - move analysis KW - rhetoric KW - social action KW - Text type KW - uptake KW - utterance AB -

Genre marks large-scale repeated patterns of meaning in human symbolic production and interaction. Approaches to genre can be divided into the formalistthematic, attending to categories and discriminations based on linguistic or textual elements and drawing from cognitive theories; and the pragmatic, attending primarily to use-patterns drawing from social theories of function, action, and communal interaction. This overview draws from disciplines explicitly concerned with natural language, including literature, rhetoric, and several areas of linguistics. A distinction between rational and empirical approaches to genre affects both how genre is conceived and what methods are used for analysis. The rational approach grounds genre in a principle or theory determined by the theorist, yielding a relatively small, closed set of genres; the empirical grounds genre in the experience of those for whom genres are significant, yielding an historically changing, open set of genres. Genre analysis is applied in many discourse disciplines and for a variety of purposes, both descriptive and prescriptive.

JA - Verbal Communication T3 - Handbooks of Communication Science PB - De Gruyter CY - Berlin SP - 269–286 SN - 9783110255478 UR - http://www.degruyter.com/view/books/9783110255478/9783110255478-015/9783110255478-015.xml ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Classifying Web Genres in Context: A Case Study Documenting the Web Genres Used by a Software Engineer JF - Information Processing and Management Y1 - 2008 A1 - Montesi, Michela A1 - Navarrete, Trilce KW - access KW - genre KW - information science KW - internet KW - professional KW - purpose KW - user KW - web AB - This case study analyzes the Internet-based resources that a software engineer uses in his daily work. Methodologically,we studied the web browser history of the participant, classifying all the web pages he had seen over a period of 12 days into web genres. We interviewed him before and after the analysis of the web browser history. In the first interview, he spoke about his general information behavior; in the second, he commented on each web genre, explaining why and how he used them. As a result, three approaches allow us to describe the set of 23 web genres obtained: (a) the purposes they serve for the participant; (b) the role they play in the various work and search phases; (c) and the way they are used in combination with each other. Further observations concern the way the participant assesses quality of web-based resources, and his information behavior as a software engineer. VL - 44 SP - 1410–1430 N1 - + pdfrecommended by Mark Rosso ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Genres from the Bottom Up: What Has the Web Brought Us T2 - Information in a Networked World: Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Y1 - 2001 A1 - Nilan, Michael A1 - Pomerantz, Jeffrey A1 - Paling, Stephen ED - Aversa, Elizabeth ED - Manley, Cynthia KW - automated genre recognition KW - classification KW - genre KW - internet KW - user behavior KW - web JA - Information in a Networked World: Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology PB - Information Today, Inc. CY - Medford, NJ VL - 38 SP - 330–339 N1 - + genre information science ER - TY - JOUR T1 - More than Just Remixing: Uptake and New Media Composition JF - Computers and Composition Y1 - 2013 A1 - Ray, Brian KW - convergence KW - multimodality KW - new media composition KW - pedagogy KW - remix KW - uptake AB -

This article turns to genre theory's recent explorations of uptake, broadly defined as the ways genres interact, as a resource for sketching a pedagogy of shuttling between genres. Using uptake, I intend to reconceptualize multimodal compositions as a means of participating in rhetorical ecologies that consist of transactions between genres instead of thinking of remixes as an end in themselves. In this article, I first define the concept of uptake in detail and discuss its use in rhetorical genre studies. After further illustrating uptake through an analysis of transactions between YouTube parodies and the 2005 German language film Downfall, I discuss existing scholarship in multimodal composition that draws on genre but not the idea of uptake in order to lay a foundation for a pedagogy that highlights the links, feedbacks, and rules that coordinate genres. My aim in the last section is to sketch possibilities for how teachers and students can deploy the concept of uptake as a rhetorical tool to strengthen their awareness of genre and multimodality. In doing this, I hope to reposition multimodal projects as beginnings or midpoints that lead to students’ emersion into public discourse rather than culminations or end goals in themselves. Integrating studies of uptake into writing curricula in this way will help students to make sophisticated rhetorical decisions in the age of media convergence.

VL - 30 SP - 183–196 CP - 3 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Presidential Inaugurals: The Modernization of a Genre JF - Political Communication Y1 - 1996 A1 - Sigelman, Lee KW - content analysis KW - genre KW - inaugural KW - presidential rhetoric KW - unification symbol VL - 13 SP - 81–92 N1 - + pdf rhet ER - TY - BOOK T1 - Tracing Genres through Organizations: A Sociocultural Approach to Information T2 - Acting with Technology Y1 - 2003 A1 - Spinuzzi, Clay ED - Nardi, Bonnie ED - Kaptelinin, Viktor ED - Foot, Kirsten KW - activity system KW - artifact KW - genre KW - information design KW - user JA - Acting with Technology PB - MIT Press CY - Cambridge, MA ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Why Structure and Genre Matter for Users of Digital Information: A Longitudinal Experiment with Readers of a Web-Based Newspaper JF - International Journal of Human-Computer Studies Y1 - 2006 A1 - Vaughan, Misha W. A1 - Dillon, Andrew KW - digital KW - experiment KW - genre KW - structure KW - usability KW - web design VL - 64 SP - 502–526 N1 - + pdf rhet ER -