1.Where Do Genres Come From? by Carolyn R. Miller.- Section Introduction: Medium.- 2.Bridge to Genre: Spanning Technological Change, by Janet Giltrow.- 3.Remediating Diagnosis: A Familiar Narrative Form or Emerging Digital Genre? by Lora Arduser.- 4.Russian New Media Users’ Reaction to a Meteor Explosion in Chelyabinsk: Twitter versus YouTube, by Natalia Rulyova.- 5.Resisting the “Natural”: Rhetorical Delivery and the Natural User Interface, by Ben McCorkle.- 6.Expansive genres of play: getting serious about game genres for the design of future learning environments, by Brad Mehlenbacher and Christopher Kampe.- Section Introduction: Genre Transformation.- 7.From Printed Newspaper to Digital Newspaper: What Has Changed? by Jaqueline Barreto Lé.- 8.Cross-culturally Narrating Risks, Imagination, and Realities of HIV/AIDS, by Huiling Ding.- 9.Source as Paratext: Videogame Adaptations and the Question of Fidelity, by Neil Randall.- 10.Atypical Rhetorical Actions: Defying Genre Expectations on Amazon.com, by Christopher Basgier.- Section Introduction: Values.- 11.Autopathographies in New Media Environments at the Turn of the Twenty–First Century, by Tamar Tembeck.- 12.Sentimentalism in Online Deliberation: Assessing the Generic Liability of Immigration Discourses, by E. Johanna Hartelius.- 13.Collected Debris of Public Memory: Commemorative Genres and the Mediation of the Past, by Victoria J. Gallagher and Jason Kalin.- 15.Hard Ephemera: Textual Tactility and the Design of the Post-Digital Narrative in Chris Ware’s “Colorful Keepsake Box” and Other Nonobjects, by Colbey Emmerson Reid.- 16.Genre Emergence and Disappearance in Feminist Histories of Rhetoric, by Risa Applegarth.- Postscript: Futures for Genre Studies, by Ashley Rose Kelly  

This volume explores cultural innovation and transformation as revealed through the emergence of new media genres. New media have enabled what impresses most observers as a dizzying proliferation of new forms of communicative interaction and cultural production, provoking multimodal experimentation, and artistic and entrepreneurial innovation. Working with the concept of genre, scholars in multiple fields have begun to explore these processes of emergence, innovation, and stabilization. Genre has thus become newly important in game studies, library and information science, film and media studies, applied linguistics, rhetoric, literature, and elsewhere. Understood as social recognitions that embed histories, ideologies, and contradictions, genres function as recurrent social actions, helping to constitute culture. Because genres are dynamic sites of tension between stability and change, they are also sites of inventive potential. Emerging Genres in New Media Environments brings together compelling papers from scholars in Brazil, Canada, England, and the United States to illustrate how this inventive potential has been harnessed around the world.

“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 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)"/p> "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)

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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