The genre I chose is hypertext poetry. Hypertext Poetry is part of the larger genre digital poetry. What I have found so far, partially on one of the sources Dr. Lang provided us, is that that the format of a hypertext poem is set up using links from words and lines, always from the primary…
For my genre project I am looking at serialized webcomics, a genre that includes webcomics that tell a story through several installments of comic pages. Serialized webcomics are an interesting genre because they take aspects of the comic and adapt them for digital spaces. I decided to research this genre for my topic because I…
For a long time, I loved to read mystery novels, specifically murder mystery novels, and have found myself heading straight for the mystery section of Barnes and Nobel during every visit. For my Digital Genre Profile I chose to expand my love for this genre and to challenge myself to discover a new genre from…
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…
I very much enjoy the idea of referring to or categorizing a text into a genre using its intended and received purpose, rather than it’s form or style, as mentioned in Myers’ article. This is, in part, an aspect of the definition of genre anyway, but I enjoy the emphasis on intent and reception, which…
A genre is a form of communication that arises in response to a particular rhetorical situation. In “What is a blog? What is a wiki?” Greg Myers defines genre as “types of texts that share certain features because their users share certain purposes” (15) and notes that genres appear and disappear in response to the needs of…
Like most of the class, my definition of genre was far narrower before we began studying it in more depth. As a writer and avid reader, I would typically define genre in terms of ‘genre fiction’ such as horror, science fiction, fantasy, romance, etc., or the broader genres we talk about in creative writing (fiction,…
Concerning the definition of genre, most of us have turned to one or another class reading for a quote. For my own part, I really like Dirk’s simple explanation of genre conventions—before writing his essay, he says that he found other examples of essays written for students and “looked for common features” (250). He also…
I’m going to be honest and admit that I did in fact mess up my last blog post by using the wrong prompt. So bare with me as I once again talk cover the wonderful world of Genre one more time. In my last blog post I talked about the history of japan and how…
Growing up in a family of avid moviegoers as well as hungry readers, my understanding of genre started when I was very young. We would watch the superhero save the day, serial killers such as Leatherface dismember bodies, and spaceships travel the stars to save the universe. This goes for what we were reading as…