@book {591,
	title = {Film/Genre},
	year = {1999},
	note = {+},
	month = {1999},
	publisher = {British Film Institute},
	organization = {British Film Institute},
	address = {London},
	keywords = {Aristotle, evolution, film, genre, literature, mixed, pragmatic, process, semantic, stability, syntactic, Todorov},
	isbn = {0-85170-717-3},
	author = {Altman, Rick}
}
@article {855,
	title = {Emerging Personal Media Genres},
	journal = {New Media \& Society},
	volume = {12},
	year = {2010},
	note = {+ pdf},
	month = {2010},
	pages = {947{\textendash}963},
	abstract = {In this article we argue that the concept of genre has a valuable function within sociological theory, particularly for understanding emerging communicative practices within social and personal media. Genres span the whole range of recognizable forms of communication, play a crucial role in overcoming contingency and facilitate communication. Their function is to enhance composing and understanding of communication by offering interpretative, recognizable and flexible frames of reference. As such, genres generate a sense of stability in modern complex societies. Genres ought to be seen as an intermediary level between the levels of media and text, however influenced by both. They operate as interaction between two interdependent dimensions, conventions and expectations, both of which are afforded by media and specific texts. In this article these relationships are illustrated through two cases of emerging personal media genres: the online diary and the camphone self-portrait.},
	keywords = {affordance, blog, camphone, camphone self-portrait, digital, emerging genre, genre, innovation, medium, online diary, personal media, self-portrait, social media, stability, text},
	author = {L{\"u}ders, Marika and Pr{\o}itz, Lin and Rasmussen, Terje}
}
@inbook {878,
	title = {Questions for Genre Theory from the Blogosphere},
	booktitle = {Genres in the Internet: Issues in the Theory of Genre},
	year = {2009},
	month = {2009},
	pages = {263{\textendash}290},
	publisher = {John Benjamins},
	organization = {John Benjamins},
	address = {Amsterdam},
	abstract = {<p>The blog illustrates well the constant change that characterizes electronic media. With a rapidity equal to that of their initial adoption, blogs became not a single genre but a multiplicity. To explore the relationship between the centrifugal forces of change and the centripetal tendencies of recurrence and typification, we extend our earlier study of personal blogs with a contrasting study of the kairos, technological affordances, rhetorical features, and exigence for what we call public affairs blogs. At the same time, we explore the relationship between genre and medium, examining genre evolution in the context of changing technological affordances. We conclude that genre and medium must be distinguished and that the aesthetic satisfactions of genre help account for recurrence in an environment of change.</p>
},
	keywords = {aesthetic, blog, change, digital, exigence, genre, media, medium, rhetoric, stability},
	author = {Miller, Carolyn R. and Shepherd, Dawn},
	editor = {Giltrow, Janet and Stein, Dieter}
}
@article {963,
	title = {Genre Ecologies: An Open-System Approach to Understanding and Constructing Documentation},
	journal = {ACM Journal of Computer Documentation},
	volume = {24},
	year = {2000},
	note = {+ pdf rhet+ pdf 702
},
	month = {2000},
	pages = {169{\textendash}181},
	abstract = {Arguing that current approaches to understanding and constructingcomputer documentation are based on the flawed assumption
that documentation works as a closed system, the authors present
an alternative way of thinking about the texts that make computer
technologies usable for people. Using two historical case studies,
the authors describe how a genre ecologies framework provides
new insights into the complex ways that people use texts to
make sense of computer technologies. The framework is designed
to help researchers and documentors account for contingency,
decentralization, and stability in the multiple texts the people use
while working with computers. The authors conclude by proposing
three heuristic tools to support the work of technical communicators engaged in developing documentation today: exploratory questions, genre
ecology diagrams, and organic engineering.
},
	keywords = {contingency, decentralization, documentation, ecology, genre, open system, stability, system},
	author = {Spinuzzi, Clay and Zachry, Mark}
}
@conference {1018,
	title = {Digital Genres and the New Burden of Fixity},
	booktitle = {Thirtieth Annual Hawaii Conference on System Sciences},
	year = {1997},
	note = {+ pdf 702},
	month = {1997},
	pages = {3{\textendash}12},
	publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
	organization = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
	keywords = {change, CMC, community, corpus, evolution, genre, stability},
	author = {Yates, Simeon J. and Sumner, Tamara R.}
}
