My genre is user-generated teen fiction. User-generated teen fiction refers to serialized stories published online for and by young adults and teens. Authors (used here to refer to any individual who posts his or her work online for other individuals to read) post single chapters at a time, creating a following readership that waits for…
The digital genre I chose to conduct my research on was Mental Health Apps: a subgenre of self-care or health apps. Mental health apps are just one of the many genres of self-care or health applications available to download on smartphones and other mobile devices. What makes them so interesting to me is how their…
Genre allows us to categorize different text and works for art. Once categorized, it becomes easier for us to understand the kind of text we are about to experience. For example, if you’re a college student who walks into your local bookstore looking for a book that will excite you and cause you to further…
An earlier post discussed YouTube’s home page and the way it displays video content in order to draw users in and keep them there as long as possible. As an avid consumer of YouTube videos, I found myself wondering how the YouTube website differed from the app, and how the design choices of each altered…