Genre theory in information studies

Studies in information publishes monographs on critical issues in the information society. The book series is concerned with all aspects of information; its nature, politics, institutions, usages, and technologies, and it presents research from a wide range of disciplinary traditions. Previously pub...

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Other Authors Andersen, Jack
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2015.
SeriesStudies in information, v. 11
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781784412548
ISSN2055-5377 ;
Physical Description1 online zdroj (xvi, 184 p.)

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Jack Andersen
  • What genre theory does / Jack Andersen
  • Re-describing knowledge organization : a genre and activity-based view / Jack Andersen
  • Genres without writers : information systems and distributed authorship / Melanie Feinberg
  • Genre and typified activities in informing and personal information management / Pamela J. McKenzie
  • The role of calendars in constructing a community of historical workers in the public records office of Great Britain ca. 1850s-1950s / Heather MacNeil
  • Organizational records as genres : an analysis of the documentary reality of organizations from the perspectives of diplomatics, records management and rhetorical genre studies / Fiorella Foscarini
  • Genres of war : informing a city / Laura Skouvig
  • Utterance and function in genre studies : a literary perspective / Sune Auken
  • Final summary : genre theory in information studies / Jack Andersen.