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…
In this post I will be using TV Tropes as a case study of the benefits and drawbacks of hypertext. “Nelson first published the term ‘‘hypertext’’ in his 1965 paper, ‘‘A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing and the Indeterminate,’’ where he describes a type of computer-supported writing system that would allow for branching,…
Being someone who is interested in music and the world of music sharing, I took interest in the genre itself, thus leading to this project. I have found out quite a bit about a few websites that I’m sure most, if not all, of us know and love. It has also helped me to realize…
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….
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…
Wikipedia has become staple in everyday looking-up of random knowledge that you just don’t remember. It’s an Internet encyclopedia that almost everyone has access to. As Vivian mentions in her blog post, the wiki genre came to be because people wanted a genre that was more collaborative and dynamic than passive. As a genre, I think…
Genre is a method of communication that comes about as a result of a particular rhetorical situation located in a specific place in time and setting. This was not always genre’s definition, and it is still not the accepted definition within certain academic circles. In “Generalizing about Genre,” Amy Devitt explains the problems in the…