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Genre Studies in Mass Media

Author : Art Silverblatt

Publisher : M.E. Sharpe

Page : 278 pages

File Size : 27,34 MB

Release : 2015-05-18

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 9780765628244

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The study of various types of programming is essential for critical analysis of the media and also offers revealing perspectives on society's cultural values, preoccupations, behavior, and myths. This handbook provides a systematic, in-depth approach to the study of media genres - including reality programs, game shows, situation comedies, soap operas, film noir, news programs, and more. The author addresses such questions as: Have there been shifts in the formula of particular genres over time? What do these shifts reveal about changes in culture? How and why do new genres - such as reality TV shows - appear? Are there differences in genres from one country to another? Combining theoretical approaches with concrete examples, the book reinforces one's understanding of the importance of genre to the creation, evolution, and consumption of media content. Each chapter in this reader-friendly book contains a detailed discussion of one of the theoretical approaches to genre studies, followed by Lines of Inquiry, which summarizes the major points of the discussion and suggests directions for analysis and further study. Each chapter also includes an example that illustrates how the particular theoretical approach can be applied in the analysis of genre. The author's careful linkage of different genres to the real world makes the book widely useful for those interested in genre study as well as media and culture, television studies, film studies, and media literacy.



Emerging Genres in New Media Environments

Author : Carolyn R. Miller

Publisher : Springer

Page : 312 pages

File Size : 43,60 MB

Release : 2016-11-25

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 3319402951

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Book Description

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.



Digital Genres in Academic Knowledge Production and Communication

Author : María José Luzón

Publisher : Channel View Publications

Page : 172 pages

File Size : 47,91 MB

Release : 2022-03-07

Category : Science

ISBN : 1788924738

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This book presents an overview of the wide variety of digital genres used by researchers to produce and communicate knowledge, perform new identities and evaluate research outputs. It explores the role of digital genres in the repertoires of genres used by local communities of researchers to communicate both locally and globally, both with experts and the interested public, and sheds light on the purposes for which researchers engage in digital communication and on the semiotic resources they deploy to achieve these purposes. The authors discuss the affordances of digital genres but also the challenges that they pose to researchers who engage in digital communication. The book explores what researchers can do with these genres, what meanings they can make, who they interact with, what identities they can construct and what new relations they establish, and, finally, what language(s) they deploy in carrying out all these practices.



Genre and the Performance of Publics

Author : Mary Jo Reiff

Publisher : University Press of Colorado

Page : 271 pages

File Size : 32,85 MB

Release : 2016-03-01

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1607324431

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Book Description

In recent decades, genre studies has focused attention on how genres mediate social activities within workplace and academic settings. Genre and the Performance of Publics moves beyond institutional settings to explore public contexts that are less hierarchical, broadening the theory of how genres contribute to the interconnected and dynamic performances of public life. Chapters examine how genres develop within publics and how genres tend to mediate performances in public domains, setting up a discussion between public sphere scholarship and rhetorical genre studies. The volume extends the understanding of genres as not only social ways of organizing texts or mediating relationships within institutions but as dynamic performances themselves. By exploring how genres shape the formation of publics, Genre and the Performance of Publicsbrings rhetoric/composition and public sphere studies into dialogue and enhances the understanding of public genre performances in ways that contribute to research on and teaching of public discourse.



Media and Genre

Author : Ivo Ritzer

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 312 pages

File Size : 45,13 MB

Release : 2022-01-02

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 3030698661

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This book reflects and analyzes the relationship between media and genre, focusing on both aesthetics and discursive meaning. It considers genres as having a decisive impact on media cultures, either in film, on TV, in computer games, comics or radio, on the level of production as well as reception. The book discusses the role of genres in media and cultural theory as a configuration of media artifacts that share specific aesthetic characteristics. It also reflects genre as a concept of categorization of media artifacts with which the latter can be analyzed under terms depending on a specific historical situation or cultural context. A special focus is placed on trans-media perspectives. Even as genres develop their own traditions within one medium, they reach beyond a media-specific horizon, necessitating a double perspective that considers the distinct recourse to genre within a medium as well as the trans-media circulation and adaption of genres.



The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Mass Media and Society

Author : Debra L. Merskin

Publisher : SAGE Publications

Page : 2169 pages

File Size : 22,30 MB

Release : 2019-11-12

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1483375528

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Book Description

The reference will discuss mass media around the world in their varied forms—newspapers, magazines, radio, television, film, books, music, websites, and social media—and will describe the role of each in both mirroring and shaping society.



Media Studies: Content, audiences, and production

Author : Pieter Jacobus Fourie

Publisher : Juta and Company Ltd

Page : 620 pages

File Size : 35,69 MB

Release : 2001

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9780702156564

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Book Description

This book includes theoretical approaches as well as a production section that focuses on basic techniques and introductory applications of media studies.



Genre Studies Around the Globe

Author : Natasha Artemeva

Publisher : Trafford Publishing

Page : 348 pages

File Size : 32,55 MB

Release : 2016-03-13

Category : Education

ISBN : 1490766324

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Genre Studies around the Globe: Beyond the Three Traditions exemplifies rich and vibrant international scholarship in the area of non-literary genre studies in the early 21st century. Based on the Genre 2012 conference held in Ottawa, Canada, the volume brings under one cover the three Anglophone traditions (English for Specific Purposes, the Sydney School, Rhetorical Genre Studies) and the approaches to genre studies developed in other national, linguistic, and cultural contexts (Brazilian, Chilean, and European). The volume contributors investigate a variety of genres, ranging from written to spoken to multimodal, and discuss issues, central to the field of genre studies: genre conceptualization in different traditions, its theoretical underpinnings, the goals of genre research, and pedagogical implications of genre studies. This collection is addressed to researchers, teachers, and students of genre who wish to familiarize themselves with current international developments in genre studies.



Social Media and Genre Studies

Author : Thomas Kenny

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield

Page : 215 pages

File Size : 42,9 MB

Release : 2023

Category : Education, Higher

ISBN : 1666907367

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This book investigates whether Facebook and Twitter have become a genre, particularly for higher education institutions. The author examines the purpose, form, and functionality of higher education's institutional web pages on these platforms through a combination of content analysis and interviews.



Approaches to Specialized Genres

Author : Kathy Ling LIN

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 304 pages

File Size : 22,6 MB

Release : 2020-12-29

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 0429623054

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Approaches to Specialized Genres provides a timely update of the field of genre studies, with 14 cutting-edge contributions split into five sections using and integrating an exceptionally wide variety of methods and perspectives (such as ESP genre research, corpus linguistics, systemic functional linguistics, ethnographic and multimodal research) to analyse genres in written, spoken, visual and auditory modes across a multiplicity of pedagogic, professional and digital settings. It highlights and illustrates the growing trend of a multiperspective and inter-theoretic approach to genre studies and demonstrates how such methodological rigour can extend our knowledge of language, in general, and genres, in particular. It also examines a rich variety of underexplored genres such as the digital genre of synchronous videoconferencing, instructional slides, video ads, engineers’ training log book entries, the narrative story genres, fundraising letters and retraction notices. It demonstrates not only the prominent value of genre research, but wide applications of genre knowledge in various educational and professional domains. The book brings together experts spreading across the world, including countries in South-East Asia, Europe, America, West Africa and South America. Accordingly, it will appeal to readers of diversified socio-cultural backgrounds working in all the aforementioned inter-related fields of applied linguistics and communication studies.