Document Type
Article
Abstract
[First paragraph]
The proliferation of Internet discourse - texts ranging from personal publishing platforms to comment-driven conversations - has led to the explosion of new genres. But will this explosion of genre also lead to the implosion of genre theory? In this paper, we seek to play with genre theory, to explore its relevance and test its limits by dealing with one particular type of online text: the blog. We ask not only what are the affordances of the blogging medium, but also what are the affordances of genre theory? What view of these texts does it offer us, and what questions are left unanswered by this look?
Repository Citation
Cover, Jennifer G., and Tim Lockridge. "Icons and Genre: The Affordances of LiveJournal.Com." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 9, no. 3, 2009, pp. 1–19. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol9/iss3/14