Title | Questions for Genre Theory from the Blogosphere |
Publication Type | Book Chapter |
Year of Publication | 2009 |
Authors | Miller, Carolyn R., and Dawn Shepherd |
Editor | Giltrow, Janet, and Dieter Stein |
Book Title | Genres in the Internet: Issues in the Theory of Genre |
Pagination | 263–290 |
Publisher | John Benjamins |
Place Published | Amsterdam |
Keywords | aesthetic, blog, change, digital, exigence, genre, media, medium, rhetoric, stability |
Abstract | The blog illustrates well the constant change that characterizes electronic media. With a rapidity equal to that of their initial adoption, blogs became not a single genre but a multiplicity. To explore the relationship between the centrifugal forces of change and the centripetal tendencies of recurrence |