Information Technology & People: Volume 18 Issue 2

Introduction to the special issue: Genres of digital documents

Barbara H. Kwaśnik, Kevin Crowston

To introduce the special issue on “Genres of digital documents.” While there are many definitions of genre, most include consideration of the intended communicative purpose, form…

Temporal coordination through communication: using genres in a virtual start‐up organization

Hyun‐Gyung Im, JoAnne Yates, Wanda Orlikowski

To explain how genres structure temporal coordination in virtual teams over time.

Digital genres: a challenge to traditional genre theory

Inger Askehave, Anne Ellerup Nielsen

The purpose of this paper is to account for the genre characteristics of non‐linear, multi‐modal, web‐mediated documents. It involves a two‐dimensional view on genres that allows…

Weblogs as a bridging genre

Susan C. Herring, Lois Ann Scheidt, Elijah Wright, Sabrina Bonus

Aims to describe systematically the characteristics of weblogs (blogs) – frequently modified web pages in which dated entries are listed in reverse chronological sequence and…

Online newspapers in Scandinavia: A longitudinal study of genre change and interdependency

Carina Ihlström, Ola Henfridsson

Purpose – To examine the evolution of the online newspaper genre in Scandinavia. To provide an understanding of the institutional context in which online newspapers initially were…