When someone says Genre, the instant thought of most people would be, comedy, drama, horror or thriller, the Genre of a movie. But then there is poetry, novel, journal or a diary, the genre of writing. But that leads to Instagram, Beebo, Myspace, Fanfiction, Facebook, Twitter and of course Blogger all of them are genres of virtual interaction.
But every genre have their own certain appealing aspects. The people that blog do it, some for a living others because they want to tell people things. People want to show the world what great writers they are by using characters from novels or television shows and telling a story on Fanfiction or their artistic ability by throwing their pictures on Instagram or Facebook. McNeill states that 'many internet diarists have used their 'amateur' writing skill to achieve professional acclaim' this was the case of the 'Fifty Shades of Gray' novel was written as a 'Fanfic' the characters being from the Twilight novels somebody thought it was good enough to be put into a book. Even though majority of the novel was not actual conversation.
Genres are made to put things in certain places because there are those time when people don't quite know where things can fit. Because even though you can put pictures on Facebook, Instagram is so much better when it comes to that. Twitter and Blogger being almost the same thing except that most of the Celebrities have Twitter accounts, they don't have Blogger accounts. Blogger is for everyone else. So there is such a thing as genre when it comes to virtual socialising. Telling people what is happening in your life and what you want to happen in your life.
References:
Laurie McNeill, Diary 2.0, A Genre Moves from Page to screen,(P.313, Chapter12), University of British Colombia,
Twitter and Facebook symbols: http://www.smartphonesworld.wordpress.com/tag/twitter/
Great post Alice, what do you think about language conventions used in social networking?
ReplyDeleteMcNeill (2011) does state that writers use the diary genre, however it is shown by Frow (2013) that many other genres are apparent within social netwroking sites (Frow, 2013).
I can't say I agree that genre signposts your life to such an extent as it merely provides boundaries for your writing- DiYanni (2005) describes genre in essays as a means of finding a direction for your writing (DiYanni, 2005).
References:
•DiYanni, R. (2005). Introduction: Reading and writing essays, in Twenty-five great essays (pp. 1-30). New York, NY: Penguin Academics.
•Frow, J. (2013) Genre. Retrieved from http://jcu.eblib.com.au.elibrary.jcu.edu.au
•McNeill, L. (2011). Dairy 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.313-3325). Creskill, NJ: Hampton