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Subject: Call for Papers: Special issue of IT&P on Genres of Digital
Documents
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> Call for Papers
>
> Special issue on
> Genres of Digital Documents
>
> To appear in
> Information, Technology & People
>
> Papers due Monday 1 March 2004
>
> We invite papers for a special issue of the journal Information
> Technology & People on Genres of Digital Documents. Genres are
> communicative actions with a socially recognized purposes and common
> aspects of form (such as newsletters, FAQs, and homepages). Genres are
> situated in complex communicative practices; they are anchored in
> specific institutions and processes and apply to physical as well as
> electronic documents. Genres are useful because they make
> communications more easily recognizable and understandable by
> recipients and more easily generated by senders. Thus, the study of
> genres, besides enhancing our understanding of information search and
> use, may also provide insights into organizational and community
> structuring.
>
> In a digital environment, documents have functionality as well as form
> and content but in many ways the contextual clues to ascertain
> functionality are missing. As a result, it is becoming increasingly
> clear that the successful use of digital media requires the emergence
> of new or transformed genres of digital communication. Genre provides
> a certain fixity in communication and provides conventions for
> navigating broad information spaces, helping to mitigate "information
> overload." In practice, genres disambiguate the information
> environment, making it easier for users to categorically ignore
> certain communications while attending carefully to others, based on
> the perception of genre and the conformity of an instance to its
> genre.
>
> Suggested topics for the special issue include:
>
> o Issues in the transformation of print genres to digital form
> o The evolution of genres of digital documents
> o Genre theory and its application to digital documents
> o Emergent genres
> o Investigations of genre in use
> o Analyses of particular document genres
> o Genres in digital search and classification
> o Genres in non-text digital documents
> o Genres for electronic commerce
> o Designing systems in support of and using genre
> o Genres that spill over into other applications
> o Limitations and presuppositions of genres
>
> Special issue editors
>
> Kevin Crowston and Barbara Kwasnik
> Syracuse University School of Information Studies
> 4-206 Centre for Science and Technology
> Syracuse, NY 13244-4100 USA
> Email: {crowston,bkwasnik} who-is-at syr.edu
>
> Instructions to authors
>
> 1. Each paper must have a title page that includes the title of the
> paper, full name of all authors, and complete addresses including
> affiliation(s), telephone number(s), and e-mail address(es).
> 2. The first page of the manuscript should include the title and a
> 300-word abstract of the paper.
> 3. Papers should contain original material and not be previously
> published, or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere.
> 4. Papers should be submitted on the ITP website at
> http://www.itandpeople.org/
>
> Important dates
> Papers due: Monday 1 March 2004
> Notification of acceptance: Tuesday 1 June 2004
> Final copy due: Monday 16 August 2004
> Anticipated publication: November 2004
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