@inbook {930,
	title = {Autopoietic Cybergenres for e-Democracy? Genre Analysis of a Web-Based Discussion Board},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Science},
	year = {2005},
	note = {+ pdf rhet},
	month = {2005},
	pages = {98c{\textendash}},
	publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
	organization = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
	address = {Los Alamitos, CA},
	abstract = {<p>The paper discusses genre theory in the field of e-Democracy. A framework for analysing communicative genres related to four stereotypical e-Democracy models is suggested. A case study of a web based discussion board in a municipality illustrates the implications of applying the genre lens to the e-Democracy research and practice, with lessons learned to considered in the future efforts on e-Democracy. Based on observations from the case, a theoretical concept of autopoietic cybergenre is suggested and its potential significance for future e-Democracy initiatives is addressed. An autopoietic cybergenre, such as a web-based discussion board, includes inherent capability for meta-communication enabling continuous structuring of the purpose(s) and parts of the form of the genre in question itself.</p>
},
	keywords = {cybergenre, democracy, e-democracy, genre},
	author = {S{\ae}b{\o}, {\O}ystein and P{\"a}iv{\"a}rinta, Tero},
	editor = {Sprague, Ralph H., Jr.}
}
