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Internet genre

Internet genre is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Internet genre rather than just read about it. In short: Internet genre refers to a type of genre explored in multimedia studies. Others include film genre, video game genres and music genre.

Key takeaways

Internet genre belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Internet genre to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Internet genre from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Internet genre refers to a type of genre explored in multimedia studies. Others include film genre, video game genres and music genre. Genre, in terms of genre studies refers to the method based on similarities in the narrative elements from which media-texts are constructed.

Types of Internet genres There are various genres of Internet services.

Personal homepage

Personal homepages are regularly updated, allows people to connect with those that they know through leaving messages and joining buddylists.

Message boards

A message board is one of the most familiar genres of online gathering place, which is asynchronous, meaning people do not have to be in the same place at the same time to have a conversation. With this genre posts can be accessed at any time and it is easy to ignore undesirable content.

E-mail lists and newsletters

An electronic mailing list or email list is a special usage of email that allows for widespread distribution of information to many Internet users. It is the easiestkind of online gathering place to create, maintain and participate.

Chat groups

Chat Group, where people can chat synchronously, communicating in the same place at the same time. Many micro-blogging platforms now function like chat groups, such as Twitter. The first online chat system was called Talkomatic, created by Doug Brown and David R. Woolley in 1973 on the PLATO System at the University of Illinois. It offered several channels, each of which could accommodate up to five people, with messages appearing on all users' screens character-by-character as they were typed. Talkomatic was very popular among PLATO users into the mid-1980s.

Virtual worlds A virtual world takes the form of a computer-based simulated environment through which users can interact with one another and use and create objects. The term has become largely synonymous with interactive 3D virtual environments, where the users take the form of avatars visible to others.

Weblogs and directories

Weblogs exist when the owner, who is referred to as a 'blogger', invites others to comment on what they have written. The emergence and growth of blogs in the late 1990s coincided with the advent of web publishing tools that facilitated the posting of content by non-technical users. (Previously, a knowledge of such technologies as HTML and FTP had been required to publish content on the Web).

Wikis and hypertext fiction

A wiki is a collaborative page-editing tool in which users may add or edit content directly through their web browser The Wiki can be seen to have a similar structure to hypertext fiction systems, where the owner of the site invites individuals to add nodes to the system and link them together. Hypertext fiction has resurged with the launch of NeverEndingStory.co.uk in 2006, though it has existed since at least since 1987 when Michael Joyce's Afternoon, a story was launched.

References

External links Trolling and Internet genres Journal of Virtual Worlds Research Legal Guide for bloggers by the Electronic Frontier Foundation

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Internet genre

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Internet genre claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Internet genre before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Internet genre ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Internet genre

In research: Internet genre appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Internet genre in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Internet genre is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Internet culture, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Internet genre outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Internet genre in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Internet genre means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Internet genre out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Internet genre in simple terms?

Internet genre refers to a type of genre explored in multimedia studies. Others include film genre, video game genres and music genre.

Why does Internet genre matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Internet genre?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Internet genre.