Format (Formats & Genre)

What Is a Ballad? Reading for Genre, Format, and Medium

Meredith L. McGill, ‘‘What Is a Ballad? Reading for Genre, Format, and Medium’’ (pp. 156–175) In this essay I show how definitions of the ballad shift as critics take into account not only the place of ballads within the genre system but also the mediation of nineteenthcentury ballads across the full range of popular and elite print formats. Arguing that the ballad is a genre that flourishes wi...

Digital Forensics Formats: Seeking a Digital Preservation Storage Container Format for Web Archiving

In this paper we discuss archival storage container formats from the point of view of digital curation and preservation, an aspect of preservation overlooked by most other studies. Considering established approaches to data management as our jumping off point, we selected seven container format attributes that are core to the long term accessibility of digital materials. We have labeled these c...

1 Worlds of Genre — Metaphors of Genre

Genre Taxonomy

In this paper, we propose a genre taxonomy as a knowledge repository of communicative structures or “typified actions” enacted by organizational members. The Genre taxonomy aims at helping people to make sense of diverse types of communicative actions, and has three features to achieve this objective. First, the genre taxonomy represents the elements of both genres and genre systems, sequences ...

Genre in Genre: The Role of Music in Music Games

The first academic researchers of music and dance games focused their primary attentions on ethnographic observations of game play, how the shift from arcade to console play affects game play strategies, defining embodied aesthetics, and analyzing the rise of a competitive play circuit in Dance Dance Revolution fan culture [Chan; Demers, 2006; Smith, 2004; Behrenshausen, 2007]. The Dance Dance ...