Blogging as a genre- Google +

Genre: Blog attributes

Blogging as a genre- Google +

 -Week 6 

Genre is a helpful dynamic tool that helps readers determine what is to be read or seen. While genres are not precise in labelling what is to be expected, there is however a stylistic criterion that the content of the context is expected to follow. The conventions writers use to attract readers through Google + are through the means of keeping information current and keeping a uniform structure throughout their writings. Within the virtual network are discourses which are a set of meaningful representations that enable identity to be constructed and social relations constituted as mention in the podcast. This is so the reader can be certain of the content that is expected to be viewed. In Google+ the user is certain of expectation because of the sub genre of blogs the user is in participation of. In turn, this is the reason for writers to write according to the specific audience that is targeted. Magazines, Blogs and movies - as an exemplar - are created to target a specific audience; through genre, aims to resonate people with themes of familiarity. 

Example Bloggers to follow

On Google + blogs are gamut from lives in progress to specific interest articles, which can be followed according to the user’s personal familiarity to genre interests. This virtual network hosts numerous amounts of blogs that have the potential of being followed by thousands of people. An example can be seen on the following link to bloggers that can be followed https://plus.google.com/u/0/people/find. To Link in key concepts with this subject:  the theme of genre creates effects of reality and truth, authority and plausibility which is central to the ways the world is understood through writing as mentioned by Dr Ariella Van Luyn in the podcast lecture. Another point she mentioned was on John Frow (2013) stating;'' Genre actively generates and shapes our knowledge of the world." This relates to - from the topic sentence stating ,genre as a dynamic tool - conceptual framework for understanding ''genre'' away from reading through rigid classification and to appreciating from dynamism, flexibility, and change over time ( McNeill, 2011, p. 314).  This point given by McNeill demonstrates that on a virtual network, such as Google +, sub-genres from the genre of blogging is developed in response to changes in the audience. This means while users can identify genre where there is a sense of familiarity, the cutting line of what defines the topic becomes unclear. 

References

McNeill, L. (2011). Diary 2.0?: A genre moves from page to screen, in Rowe, C. & Wyss, E. L. (Eds.) Language and new media: Linguistic, cultural, and technological evolutions (pp. 314). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton.

Van Luyn, A. (2013). BA1002: Our Space: Networks, narratives and the making of place, Lecture 6: Genre [PowerPoint slides]. Retrieved from http: learnjcu.edu.au

Google+, example bloggers, Link retrieved from: 

         https://plus.google.com/u/0/people/find