Collaborative genre

Genres requiring communicative interaction between users, often with some kind of multimedia communication technology (Yates, Orlikowski, & Rennecker, 1997).

Reference: 

Yates, J., Orlikowski, W. J., & Rennecker, J. (1997). Collaborative genres for collaboration: Genre systems in digital media. In the 30th Annual Hawaii Conference on System Sciences. Computer Society Press. 

Example: 

Yates and Orlikowski (1997) studied a groupware technology that enabled collaborative writing, the products of which they labeled as a collaborative genre in their study.  Google Docs could be seen as a similar type of collaborative genre of writing. 

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Nick Temple

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