Cybergenre
A class of genre emerging from the introduction and increasing use of the Internet as a medium of communication. The class includes genres that existed in other media and "migrated" to the Internet, as well as "novel" genres that have no antecedent genre
s in other media (as opposed to, e.g., blogs, which have obvious antecedents in diaries). (Shepherd & Watters, 1999)
Reference:
Shepherd, M., & Watters, C. (1999). The functionality attribute of cybergenres. In 32nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Ed. R.H. Sprague, Jr. Maui: IEEE Computer Society Press.
Example:
Corporate home pages; search engines (Shepherd & Watters, 1999).
Contributed by:
Emerging Genres, N.C. State University, Spring 2010
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