Emerging Genres in New Media Environments

1. “Where Do Genres Come From?”
Carolyn R. Miller

Part I. Medium

2. Bridge to Genre: Spanning Technological Change
Janet Giltrow

3. Remediating Diagnosis: A Familiar Narrative Form or Emerging Digital Genre?
Lora Arduser

4. Russian New Media Users’ Reaction to a Meteor Explosion in Chelyabinsk: Twitter Versus YouTube
Natalia Rulyova

5. Resisting the “Natural”: Rhetorical Delivery and the Natural User Interface
Ben McCorkle

6. Expansive Genres of Play: Getting Serious About Game Genres for the Design of Future Learning Environments
Brad Mehlenbacher, Christopher Kampe

Part II. Genre Transformation

7. From Printed Newspaper to Digital Newspaper: What Has Changed?
Jaqueline Barreto Lé

8. Cross-Culturally Narrating Risks, Imagination, and Realities of HIV/AIDS
Huiling Ding

9. Source as Paratext: Videogame Adaptations and the Question of Fidelity
Neil Randall

10. Atypical Rhetorical Actions: Defying Genre Expectations on Amazon.com
Christopher Basgier

Part III. Values

11. Autopathographies in New Media Environments at the Turn of the 21st Century
Tamar Tembeck

12. Sentimentalism in Online Deliberation: Assessing the Generic Liability of Immigration Discourses
E. Johanna Hartelius

13. Collected Debris of Public Memory: Commemorative Genres and the Mediation of the Past
Victoria J. Gallagher, Jason Kalin

14. Hard Ephemera: Textual Tactility and the Design of the Post-Digital Narrative in Chris Ware’s “Colorful Keepsake Box” and Other Non-Objects
Colbey Emmerson Reid

15. Genre Emergence and Disappearance in Feminist Histories of Rhetoric
Risa Applegarth

16. Postscript: Futures for Genre Studies
Ashley Rose Kelly

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Media and Communication, Genre, Communication Studies, Cultural Theory, Cultural Studies, Media Research