Overview
- Explores cultural change over time as revealed through the creation and emergence of new media genres
- Includes attention to visual and multimodal genres (19th-century photography, public commemorative sites, digital artistic works, videogames) as well as text-centric genres
- Incorporates contributions from multiple disciplines (art history, communication, education, composition, game studies, literature, rhetoric and technical communication) and multiple countries (Brazil, Canada, the UK and the US)
- Connects new media studies, rhetorical analysis and cultural innovation and transformation through genre theory
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Medium
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Genre Transformation
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Values
Keywords
About this book
Reviews
“This volume uses our current and previous experience to address the core questions where do genres come from and how do they come to be. From the important opening theoretical essay by Carolyn Miller that weighs the various models of genre origins to the many well-documented cases in the following chapters, this book gives us much grist to think about the nature of genres, their relation to technologies, and the protean landscape of genres before us…” (Charles Bazerman, University of California, USA)
“Emerging Genres in New Media Environments is a brilliant exposition of a crucial topic in genre studies and in cultural studies at large. Miller and Kelly’s anthology is wide ranging, sharp, and rich, with an impressive dynamic between theory, subject matter, and interpretation. It promises to be a landmark publication.” (Sune Auken, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)<
“This collection adds to the growing body of knowledge about the relationship between genre and media and proposes new directions for future research on genres, thus making a unique and timely contribution to genre studies. The volume showcases cutting-edge, original research that addresses a variety of key questions about genre development, emergence, and change in the contexts of new media. The collection promises to become as important to the field of genre studies as Miller’s 1984 seminal article “Genre as social action”.” (Natasha Artemeva, Carleton University, Canada)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ashley R. Kelly is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Waterloo, Canada, and researches new and emerging genres of science communication.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Emerging Genres in New Media Environments
Editors: Carolyn R. Miller, Ashley R. Kelly
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40295-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-40294-9Published: 15 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82071-2Published: 11 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-40295-6Published: 25 November 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 308
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Media and Communication, Genre, Communication Studies, Cultural Theory, Cultural Studies, Media Research