Digital Narratives and the Genealogy of a Hybrid Genre

2014 ◽  
pp. 392-408
Author(s):  
Otilia Pacea
Keyword(s):  
High Impact ◽  
Genre Analysis ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Internet Communication ◽  
Corporate Blogs ◽  
Language Data ◽  
Digital Narratives ◽  
Hybrid Genre ◽  
Blog Posts

From a simple list of links annotated and maintained by a small blog community of Internet groupies to elaborated content today, blogs have exploded into a rich gamut of subgenres. Most approaches that pioneered internet communication research are in fact non-empirical and non-linguistic. Two major blog types appear to have emerged, personal blogs and thematic blogs, with their corresponding already-established subgenres of filter blogs, k-logs, and corporate blogs as well as other emerging hybrid subgenres such as that of expat blogs. This chapter explores the language of high-impact blogs, testing a new methodology to establish blog genealogy in the context of online genre hybridity. Language data are collected using a major blog searching engine (Technorati) that currently indexes more than a million blogs. Individual language scores, which are used to calculate DICTION’s sub variables, are concatenated to outline the overall tone and theme of the blog posts that can be classified accordingly. The findings are correlated with existing blog classifications to propose a Diction-based methodology for genre analysis.

scholarly journals Digital Narratives and the Genealogy of a Hybrid Genre

2014 ◽  
pp. 1001-1017
Author(s):  
Otilia Pacea
Keyword(s):  
High Impact ◽  
Genre Analysis ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Internet Communication ◽  
Corporate Blogs ◽  
Language Data ◽  
Digital Narratives ◽  
Hybrid Genre ◽  
Blog Posts

From a simple list of links annotated and maintained by a small blog community of Internet groupies to elaborated content today, blogs have exploded into a rich gamut of subgenres. Most approaches that pioneered internet communication research are in fact non-empirical and non-linguistic. Two major blog types appear to have emerged, personal blogs and thematic blogs, with their corresponding already-established subgenres of filter blogs, k-logs, and corporate blogs as well as other emerging hybrid subgenres such as that of expat blogs. This chapter explores the language of high-impact blogs, testing a new methodology to establish blog genealogy in the context of online genre hybridity. Language data are collected using a major blog searching engine (Technorati) that currently indexes more than a million blogs. Individual language scores, which are used to calculate DICTION's sub variables, are concatenated to outline the overall tone and theme of the blog posts that can be classified accordingly. The findings are correlated with existing blog classifications to propose a Diction-based methodology for genre analysis.

If Pandora had a Blog

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-32
Author(s):  
Otilia Pacea
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Genre Analysis ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Political Blogs ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Mediated Discourse ◽  
Digital Landscape

In the context of internet genre migration and proliferation, conventional taxonomies are no longer valid. To classify blogs between thematic and personal blogs is to blissfully ignore the legions of successful content prosumers, from political blogs to travel blogs, from food blogs to MAD (mom and dad) blogs, from fashion blogs to milblogs. With the recent explosion of social media, the digital landscape shifted and today there are more voices online than ever before. For blogs, however, the original purpose for communication has always been twofold: to inform and to emote. Computer-mediated communication may be overpopulated with a myriad of mixed forms and blogs might be dead or simply, difficult to reach with so much overlapping. Yet high-impact blogs still remain and are widely read. This paper explores the language of high-impact blogs, testing a new methodology for genre analysis to solve genre hybridity in the case of computer-mediated discourse.

scholarly journals The Highs in Communication Research: Research Topics With High Supply, High Popularity, and High Prestige in High-Impact Journals

2020 ◽  
pp. 009365022094479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chung-hong Chan ◽  
Christiane Grill
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Inquiry ◽  
Topic Modeling ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Supply Side ◽  
Citation Networks ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Scientific Interest ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Scholarly Attention

More and more scholarly attention is paid to dissecting discipline of communication research under the microscope thereby aiming at revealing foci of scientific interest. The lion’s share of research has hereby focused either on the supply side of research examining what topics scholars write about or at the popularity side of research shedding light on what scientific publications receive the most citations. Building up on this, we argue that these research strands are inadequate to the task of exhaustively identifying foci of scientific interest. Tailoring for the fragmented topical landscape of communication research, we propose an integrative combination of three metrics: supply, popularity, and prestige of research topics. By means of topic modeling, citation counts and citation networks, our study showcases how our approach is able to reveal the intellectual architecture of our discipline in order to identify relevant paths for further scientific inquiry.

scholarly journals Communication Research, the Geopolitics of Knowledge and Publishing in High-Impact Journals: The Chronicle of a Commodification Process Foretold

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-324
Author(s):  
Víctor Manuel Marí Sáez ◽  
Clara Martins do Nascimento
Keyword(s):  
Research Question ◽  
Scientific Journal ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Impact Factors ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Commodity Fetishism ◽  
National Agency ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Main Research

The reforms in higher education that have been introduced on a global scale in recent years have gone hand in glove with the progressive imposition of scientific journal impact factors, all of which points to the rise of academic capitalism and digital labour in universities that is increasingly subject to the logic of the market. A diachronic analysis of this process allows for talking about, paraphrasing Gabriel García Márquez, the chronicle of a commodification process foretold. More than twenty years ago it was clear what was going to happen, but not how it was going to unfold. Accordingly, this article reconstructs that process, comparing the Spanish case with global trends and highlighting the crucial role that governmental agencies like the National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation and specific evaluation tools like the publication of scientific papers in high-impact journals have played in it. In this analysis, Wallerstein’s core-periphery relations and the concept of commodity fetishism, as addressed by Walter Benjamin, prove to be especially useful. The main research question posed in this article is as follows: What does the process of the commodification of communication research look like in Spain?

scholarly journals The Meaning Extraction Method: An Approach to Evaluate Content Patterns From Large-Scale Language Data

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Markowitz
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Extraction Method ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Content Analyses ◽  
Language Data

Qualitative content analyses often rely on a top-down approach to understand themes in a collection of texts. A codebook prescribes how humans should judge if a text fits a theme based on rules and judgment criteria. Qualitative approaches are challenging because they require many resources (e.g., coders, training, rounds of coding), can be affected by researcher or coder bias, may miss meaningful patterns that deviate from the codebook, and often use a subsample of the data. A complementary, bottom-up approach—the Meaning Extraction Method—has been popular in social psychology but rarely applied to communication research. This paper outlines the value of the Meaning Extraction Method, concluding with a guide to conduct analyses of content and themes from massive and complete datasets, quantitatively. The Meaning Extraction Method is performed on a public and published archive of pet adoption profiles to demonstrate the approach. Considerations for communication research are offered.

scholarly journals Reworking research: Interactions in academic articles and blogs

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 713-733 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hang Zou ◽  
Ken Hyland
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Rhetorical Situation ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Digital Medium ◽  
Lay People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Hybrid Genre ◽  
Academic Genres ◽  
Blog Posts

The blog is an increasingly familiar newcomer to the panoply of academic genres, offering researchers the opportunity to disseminate their work to new and wider audiences of experts and interested lay people. This digital medium, however, also brings challenges to writers in the form of a relatively unpredictable readership and the potential for immediate, public and potentially hostile criticism. To understand how academics in the social sciences respond to this novel rhetorical situation, we explore how they discoursally recontextualize in blogs the scientific information they have recently published in journal articles. Based on two corpora of 30 blog posts and 30 journal articles with the same authors and topics, we examine the ways researchers carefully reconstruct a different writer persona and relationship with their readers using stance and engagement model. In addition to supporting the view that the academic blog is a hybrid genre situated between academic and journalistic writing, we show how writers’ rhetorical choices help define different rhetorical contexts.

scholarly journals INTERNET COMMUNICATION TOOLS: THE WAY OF CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONALITY OR FREEDOM OF CHOICE IN THE DIGITAL AGE

2019 ◽  
pp. 168-172
Author(s):  
E. V. Dyatlova ◽  
M. V. Mikhina
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Information Transfer ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Internet Communication ◽  
Freedom Of Choice ◽  
Communication Tools ◽  
Electronic Interactions ◽  
Tactile Sensations

With the introduction of almost every sphere of human activity computer technologies, there is a need for the formation of holistic scientific position in determining further cultural development of the human being. An assumption has been made, that a resourceful basis for communication research via the Internet are philosophical categories and cultural-historical psychology, because its statements allow to conceptualize the Internet communication tools as indirect activity. The specific features of electronic interactions, which have a significant impact on development of the of the personality have been highlighted and analyzed in the article: a lack of tactile sensations, increasing the volume and speed of information transfer, the introduction of artificial intelligence in communication tools.

A Genre Analysis of Discussion Sections of Qualitative Research Articles in Applied Linguistics

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 1383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leila Dobakhti
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Genre Analysis ◽  
Structure Model ◽  
Generic Structure ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Genre Study

This paper reports on a genre study of the Discussion sections of 15 qualitative research articles in Applied Linguistics from five high impact journals published from 2003-2009. Based on Swales' (1990, 2004) move structure model, this study aims to develop a description of move structure in this corpus and introduce the available patterns and options. The analysis reveals that there are similarities and differences between the generic structure of qualitative research articles identified in this paper and those found concerning empirical research articles.

scholarly journals Genre analysis of the text in the context of structure and composition of Shakir Selim’s literary work “About Shamil Alyadin, Charyks and the Pocket Knife”

2021 ◽  
pp. 23-33
Author(s):  
Mukhamed-Ali Usmanovich Sulaimanov
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Genre Analysis ◽  
Literary Art ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Hybrid Genre ◽  
Crimean Tatar

The relevance of this article is substantiated by scantiness of research dedicated to genre analysis of the text in the context of structure and composition in Crimean Tatar literature as a whole and on the example of Shakir Selim’s work “About Shamil Alyadin, Charyks and the Pocket Knife” in particular. The subject of this study is the genre analysis of the text in the context of structure and composition on the example of the indicated literary work. The goal consists in the analysis of relations between various literary-publicistic genres in the context of structure and composition of the text, rather than in the attempt to determine any specific genre and its characteristics in the literary work. The author concludes on the “ambivalent” hybrid genre form of truly emotional evocative essay with a pronounced expressiveness and literary-criticism article, and strong logical methodology. The text also contains the latent genre forms of monologue, distance dialogue, or discussion. The author begins if not a direct then reflexive dialogue with the heroes and the audience. The synthesis and interaction of different genres forms the uniqueness of the literary work, drawing attention of the reader to the ethics of literary art. The unifying genre of the work is spiritual-intellectual prose. The analysis of structural and compositional peculiarities of the literary work revealed the important, although not absolute, criteria for establishing interrelation between cognate genres, which in turn allowed identifying the main and auxiliary genre forms of the studied text.

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