The last 15 years have seen a rapid growth in the popularity of e-planning in Australia and internationally. In this paper I wish e-planning to be understood as a range of planning activities that are taking place online. Eplanning can refer variously to the systems used to submit and track development applications online, online planning certification tools, blogs and discussion forums hosted ...

In this paper we argue that a combination of Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and Genre Theory can constitute a theoretical framework for understanding how digital genres evolve. Genre theory states that genres evolve over time through reciprocal interaction between institutionalized practices and individual action; that they develop from actors’ responses to recurrent situations, and are shaped ar...

Abstract We explore a simple, web-based method for predicting the genre of a given artist based on co-occurrence analysis, i.e. analyzing co-occurrences of artist and genre names on music-related web pages. To this end, we use the page counts provided by Google to estimate the relatedness of an arbitrary artist to each of a set of genres. We investigate four different query schemes for obtainin...

the present study investigated the effect of single and multiple genre movies on listening comprehension of upper intermediate language learners. to this end, a language proficiency test was administered to 40 male and female postgraduates of different majors attending international english language testing system (ielts) classes and ultimately 25 upper intermediate language learners were selec...

Genres and registers of Kalevala-metric poetry have customarily been treated as correlating concepts. The paper examines a category Origin Fire incantations text-type which includes multiple linguistic functioning inside the genre. These are reflexive formations, potentially established social situations when addressing supernatural agents. analysis directive utterances in data reveals that age...

Alloplastic implants have been used to repair orbital wall fractures in most cases. Orbital hemorrhage is a rare complication of these implants and has been reported rarely in Korea. The purpose of this article is to report a late complication case focusing on their etiology and management. A 20-year-old male patient underwent open reduction with Medpor (porous polyethylene) insertion for bilat...

The experience of nonhuman animals is typically neglected in dystopian fiction, particularly as concerns the experiences domestic pets. presence such creatures dystopia often notable only by their absence, with animal life (or lack thereof) being a characteristic, albeit peripheral, marker social or environmental loss. In recent years, however, authors have been increasingly drawn to role end t...

Under the influence of a new medium, a genre may evolve into variants of the original genre or even into new genre. Genre, even through such evolution, are normally characterized by the tuple, , and little attention is paid to the functionality afforded by the new medium. The combination of the computer and the Internet, however, has resulted in the emergence of cybergenre, a new...