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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824231103321

Titolo

Genres of digital documents / / guest editors: Barbara H. Kwasnik, Kevin Crowston

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bradford, England, : Emerald Group Publishing, c2005

ISBN

1-280-50897-3

9786610508976

1-84544-317-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (121 p.)

Collana

Information technology & people ; ; v. 18, no. 2

Altri autori (Persone)

CrowstonKevin

KwasnikBarbara H (Barbara Hanna)

Disciplina

004.068

004.0683

Soggetti

Information technology

Management information systems

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; EDITORIAL BOARD; Introduction to the special issue; Temporal coordination through communication: using genres in a virtual start-up organization; Digital genres: a challenge to traditional genre theory; Weblogs as a bridging genre; Online newspapers in Scandinavia

Sommario/riassunto

The study of genres the fusion of content, purpose and form of communicative actions stretches back hundreds of years to the beginnings of self-reflective human communication. Greek philosophers and orators recognized that the content of the message is not always its most important aspect; rather, the delivery, the context, and the rhetorical structure all play complementary roles in the subtle but profound act of one human being transferring information to another and thereby creating meaning from that transfer.