As part of Kathleen Blake Yancey’s definition of a portfolio in “Portfolio, Electronic, and the Links Between,” she states that a portfolio should showcase a “collection of work” (130). My portfolio would collect the three major projects that I have completed for this class, the reflections for each, and some of the blog posts that…
My genre is Beauty Instagrams that I refer to as BeautyGrams. The genre is Instagram accounts that have beauty related topics. In my Wiki, I focus on makeup. However, there are many subgenres within that wide genre. My most interesting finding is how popular Instagram is! It seems silly, but I never really realized the…
While I have not had extensive time to work on my Digital Genre Wiki, I am trying my very best! That said, my genre is the DIY in all its glory. Whether its bath bombs or home improvement, the DIY has taken the internet by storm and needs to be treated as a genre same as…
For my genre profile project, I decided to focus on the contemporary craze of Twitter poetry. Twitter poetry is a subgenre of digital poetry (much like what Molly Aiudi talks about in her post about hypertext poetry) as well as a subgenre of a rising form of writing known as Twitterature. Twitter poetry focuses on…
Lately, I’ve become interested in mobile games as a genre, especially those revamping popular games originally designed for much different platforms. While not hastily defined elsewhere as a genre, I like to think of Nostalgic Franchise Mobile Games as a very niche and Millennial digital genre, where games that are now thought of fondly as…
I started listening to podcasts during my first internship, which was a full-time desk job in editing for marketing. Sitting at a desk from 9-5 every day for three months was something I hadn’t been prepared for, and I had never even had a part-time job before then. It was too quiet, and I would…
The book trailer is a digital genre that developed from book covers and movie trailers, and is used as a form of visual advertisement for books. Professor Rasmus Grøn defines the book trailer as “based on a medial discrepancy, where a literary (i.e. written) source text is represented through an audiovisual transposition” (Grøn 91). Book trailers…
As Vivian and Jordan talked about in their blog posts, I am writing my Digital Genre Wiki Entry on something that interests me – Beauty YouTube videos. When I started watching videos by the likes of Jaclyn Hill, emilynoel83, and Jessica Braun, I was in high school and just learning about beauty and makeup….
The digital genre I chose was children’s e-books. Children’s e-books are just like regular e-books because they display print, have pages, a table of contents, etc. However, their difference is they contain elaborate, colorful pictures and sometimes are accompanied by games, audio features, and sometimes animation. What makes this genre interesting to me is its links to…
I am writing my digital genre wiki on Internet memes. While sites like Wikipedia define Internet memes very broadly as images, hyperlinks, plain text, etc., I want to focus my discussion primarily to image/text-based memes, such as the one below, found on sites like iFunny. These memes, as well as memes more broadly, can be…