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Where Do Genres Come From?
Week 3, Session 1
New Digital Genres
Carolyn R. Miller
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April 19, 2023 2
Class schedule revision
Week IV: New Genres in Teaching and Learning
Monday, August 6 at 2:30 pm
Plagiarism and the internet, with Prof. Bazerman
Bazerman, "Paying the Rent: Languaging Particularity and Novelty."
Tuesday, August 7, regular time and place
Brooks, "Reading, Writing, and Teaching Creative Hypertext."
Palmquist, "Writing in Emerging Genres.”
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Today’s agenda
• Shepherd & Watters: cybergenres
• Yates et al.: genres in electronic communication
• Giddens and structuration
• Some comparisons
• Break
• Reports (how many?)
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Cybergenres
extant novel
replicated variant emergent spontaneous
Shepherd & Watters, “The Evolution of Cybergenres”
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Cybergenres
extant novel
replicated variant emergent spontaneous
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Cybergenres
extant novel
replicated variant emergent spontaneous
two different processes
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Questions
• Non-digital genres are characterized by <content, form>, digital genres by <content, form, functionality>.
Why do non-digital genres not have functionality?
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Questions
• Novel cybergenres “have no real counterpart in another medium.” Do they have antecedents?
• If a genre is “spontaneous” does that mean it has no antecedents?
• Can a “replicated” genre also be spontaneous? or a “variant” or “emergent” genre?
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Cybergenres
extant novel
replicated variant emergent indigenous
two different sources
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Yates, Orlikowski, & Okamura
labs A B C
teams SG1 SG2 SG3 SG4 SYS DPSnewsgroups (all) announce, reports, headlines,
release, guide, lookfor, etc.
(local) SG1, SG2, etc.
genres all: 7 newsgroup-based genres
SG4: 4 genres
SYS: 5 genres
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Yates, Orlikowski, & Okamura
labs A B C
teams SG1 SG2 SG3 SG4 SYS DPSnewsgroups (all) announce, reports, headlines,
release, guide, lookfor, etc.
(local) SG1, SG2, etc.
genres all: 7 newsgroup-based genres
SG4: 4 genres
SYS: 5 genres
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Yates, Orlikowski, & Okamura
labs A B C
teams SG1 SG2 SG3 SG4 SYS DPSnewsgroups (all) announce, reports, headlines,
release, guide, lookfor, etc.
(local) SG1, SG2, etc.
genres all: 7 newsgroup-based genres
SG4: 4 genres
SYS: 5 genres
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Explicit and implicit structuring
• Explicit structuring intervention by mediators deliberate shaping of genre norms for
community replication, modification, innovation
• Implicit structuring tacit enactment migration, variation
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Genre structuring: influences
• Community’s existing genre repertoire
• Tasks at hand
• Users’ prior experiences
• Role and action of mediators
• Context and history of community
• Affordances of media in use
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Anthony Giddens
• 1938–• British sociologist• Central Problems in
Social Theory, 1979• The Constitution of
Society, 1984• Consequences of
Modernity, 1990
http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge81.html
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Giddens: basic concepts
• Structure: Rules and resources, organized as properties of social systems. Structure exists only as “structural properties.”
• System: Reproduced relations between actors or collectivities, organized as regular social practices.
• Structuration: Conditions governing the continuity of transformation of structures, and therefore the reproduction of systems.
Central Problems, p. 66
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Giddens: structuration
structuration
rules
resources
rules
resources
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Giddens: duality of structure
structure
agency system
resource outcome
concreteness of action
abstractness of institutions
self other(s)
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Giddens: structuration
• Possibility of change is inherent in every circumstance of social reproduction (210).
• Continuity of social conduct assured through social reproduction (duality of structure).
• Routine action is strongly saturated by the “taken-for-granted,” that which does not require a rationalization or account (218).
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Genre and structuration
• Genre mediates between macrostructures and micropractices (S&S, p. 270)
• “The Cultural Basis of Genre” (Miller, 1994): culture (or society) is constituted and reproduced (in part) in and through the instantiation, reproduction, and modification of genres
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Questions for Yates et al.
• What is the basis for identifying genres—in project-wide newsgroups? in local newsgroups?
• How might the method of identification affect the results?
• If the “memo” genre overlaps with “genres having more specific purposes,” is it a really a genre?
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Comparison
• Schryer & Spoel
• Shepherd & Watters
• Yates et al.
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Comparison
Schryer & Spoel
Shepherd & Watters
Yates et al.
regulated replicated
variant
emergent
explicitly structured
regularized spontaneous implicitly structured
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Cybergenres
extant novel
replicated variant emergent spontaneous
explicit structuring
implicit structuring
regulated genres regularizedgenres
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April 19, 2023
Assignment for Thursday
• ReadingCosio & Dyson, “Identifying Graphic Conventions …”
Miller & Shepherd, “Blogging as Social Action”
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Assignment for Thursday
• Brief paper (500–700 words)In one brief paragraph describe a digital genre (exigence, audience, constraints). Then in one paragraph each use two of these frameworks to analyze it: regulated or regularized, extant or new, explicit or implicit structuring. In a final paragraph, decide which framework is most useful for this purpose.
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Reports
• What issues do the digital media raise for the use and study of genres?