%0 Book %D 2005 %T Internet Society: The Internet in Everyday Life %A Bakardjieva, Maria %K agency %K audience ethnography %K Bakhtin %K Feenberg %K little behavior genre %K Schutz %K social construction of technology %K use genre %K user %K Volosinov %I Sage %C London %8 2005 %G eng %0 Book %D 1994 %T The Ideology of Genre: A Comparative Study of Generic Instability %A Beebee, Thomas O. %K Althusser %K ars dictaminis %K Bakhtin %K Derrida %K evolution %K genre %K Jameson %K literature %K romance %K speech act %K Todorov %K use-value %K Western %I Pennsylvania State University Press %C University Park, PA %8 1994 %@ 0-271-02570-0 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Theory, Culture, & Society %D 2006 %T Classification %A Boyne, Roy %K classification %K identity %K representation %K subjectivity %K universals %B Theory, Culture, & Society %V 23 %P 21–50 %8 2006 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory %D 2008 %T Taking Up Space: On Genre Systems as Geographies of the Possible %A Dryer, Dylan B %K documentary society %K genre system %K land-use planning %K uptake %B JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory %V 28 %P 503–534 %8 2008 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Writing Program Administration %D 2008 %T The Persistence of Institutional Memory: Genre Uptake and Program Reform %A Dryer, Dylan B %K genre %K uptake %B Writing Program Administration %V 3` %P 32-51 %8 2008 %G eng %0 Book Section %B Engagement in professional genres: Disclosure and deference %D 2019 %T Gestural Silence: An engagement device in the multimodal genre of the chalk talk lecture %A Fogarty-Bourget, C. G. %A Artemeva, N. %A Fox, J. %Y Guinda, C. S. %K engagement %K genre %K gestural silence %K multimodality %K university mathematics %X

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.

%B Engagement in professional genres: Disclosure and deference %I John Benjamins %C Amsterdam %P 277-296 %G eng %0 Book Section %B Genres in the Internet: Issues in the Theory of Genre %D 2009 %T Situating the Public Social Actions of Blog Posts %A Grafton, Kathryn %K blog %K Canada %K genre %K literature %K public %K uptake %B Genres in the Internet: Issues in the Theory of Genre %7 Janet Giltrow and Dieter Stein, eds %I Benjamins %C Amsterdam %P 85-111 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Linguistics and the Human Sciences %D 2007 %T Engaging with and Arranging for Publics in Blog Genres %A Grafton, Kathryn %A Maurer, Elizabeth %K blog %K community %K genre %K meta-genre %K public %K uptake %X 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). %B Linguistics and the Human Sciences %V 3 %P 47–66 %8 2007 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J English for Specific Purposes %D 2008 %T Convention and inventiveness in an occluded academic genre: A case study of retention–promotion–tenure reports %A Hyon, Sunny %K academic writing %K occluded genre %K uptake %B English for Specific Purposes %V 27 %P 175–192 %G eng %N 2 %0 Journal Article %J Journal of Technical Writing and Communication %D 2016 %T CMSs, Bittorrent Trackers and Large-Scale Rhetorical Genres: Analyzing Collective Activity in Participatory Digital Spaces %A Lewis, Justin %K activity theory %K CMS %K content management system %K digital tools %K participatory archives %K piracy %K rhetorical genre studies %K user-experience design %K UX %X

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.

%B Journal of Technical Writing and Communication %V 46 %G eng %U http://jtw.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/09/09/0047281615600634 %N 1 %R 10.1177/0047281615600634 %0 Book Section %B Verbal Communication %D 2016 %T Discourse Genres %A Miller, Carolyn R. %A Kelly, Ashley R. %E A. Rocci %E L. de Saussure %K exigence %K formalism %K genre awareness %K genre system %K macrostructure %K move analysis %K rhetoric %K social action %K Text type %K uptake %K utterance %X

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.

%B Verbal Communication %S Handbooks of Communication Science %I De Gruyter %C Berlin %P 269–286 %@ 9783110255478 %G eng %U http://www.degruyter.com/view/books/9783110255478/9783110255478-015/9783110255478-015.xml %R 10.1515/9783110255478-015 %0 Journal Article %J Information Processing and Management %D 2008 %T Classifying Web Genres in Context: A Case Study Documenting the Web Genres Used by a Software Engineer %A Montesi, Michela %A Navarrete, Trilce %K access %K genre %K information science %K internet %K professional %K purpose %K user %K web %X 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. %B Information Processing and Management %V 44 %P 1410–1430 %8 2008 %G eng %0 Book Section %B Information in a Networked World: Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology %D 2001 %T Genres from the Bottom Up: What Has the Web Brought Us %A Nilan, Michael %A Pomerantz, Jeffrey %A Paling, Stephen %E Aversa, Elizabeth %E Manley, Cynthia %K automated genre recognition %K classification %K genre %K internet %K user behavior %K web %B Information in a Networked World: Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology %I Information Today, Inc. %C Medford, NJ %V 38 %P 330–339 %8 2001 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Computers and Composition %D 2013 %T More than Just Remixing: Uptake and New Media Composition %A Ray, Brian %K convergence %K multimodality %K new media composition %K pedagogy %K remix %K uptake %X

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.

%B Computers and Composition %V 30 %P 183–196 %G eng %N 3 %& 183 %R 10.1016/j.compcom.2013.07.003 %0 Journal Article %J Political Communication %D 1996 %T Presidential Inaugurals: The Modernization of a Genre %A Sigelman, Lee %K content analysis %K genre %K inaugural %K presidential rhetoric %K unification symbol %B Political Communication %V 13 %P 81–92 %8 1996 %G eng %0 Book %B Acting with Technology %D 2003 %T Tracing Genres through Organizations: A Sociocultural Approach to Information %A Spinuzzi, Clay %E Nardi, Bonnie %E Kaptelinin, Viktor %E Foot, Kirsten %K activity system %K artifact %K genre %K information design %K user %B Acting with Technology %I MIT Press %C Cambridge, MA %8 2003 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J International Journal of Human-Computer Studies %D 2006 %T Why Structure and Genre Matter for Users of Digital Information: A Longitudinal Experiment with Readers of a Web-Based Newspaper %A Vaughan, Misha W. %A Dillon, Andrew %K digital %K experiment %K genre %K structure %K usability %K web design %B International Journal of Human-Computer Studies %V 64 %P 502–526 %8 2006 %G eng