Genre ecologies: an open-system approach to understanding and constructing documentation
ACM Journal of Computer Documentation (JCD)
SIGDOC '01 Proceedings of the 19th annual international conference on Computer documentation
Proceedings of the 20th annual international conference on Computer documentation
Examining the use case as genre in software development and documentation
Proceedings of the 21st annual international conference on Documentation
Four ways to investigate assemblages of texts: genre sets, systems, repertoires, and ecologies
Proceedings of the 22nd annual international conference on Design of communication: The engineering of quality documentation
SIGDOC '06 Proceedings of the 24th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication
Researching proposal development: accounting for the complexity of designing persuasive texts
SIGDOC '06 Proceedings of the 24th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication
Game Work: Language, Power, and Computer Game Culture (Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit)
Game Work: Language, Power, and Computer Game Culture (Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit)
Advances in understanding knowledge work: an experience report
Proceedings of the 26th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication
Proceedings of the 27th ACM international conference on Design of communication
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Genres exist within complex social structures, making them both the product and productive of that social structure. Consequently, any genre may be as active within the context of its social structure as are any human agents. This paper broadens the concept of genre to include what we call the genre field in the attempt to expand the definition of agent to include the genre-as-agent concept. Through the lens of play theory, this paper develops a grammar of genre fields as a heuristic for the understanding of genre's complex social structure. This grammar of genre fields includes the player-agent and genre-agent, the genre field, and the play scenario. To illustrate the use of the grammar of genre fields, this paper applies the grammar to two case studies; the first of which showcases genre within a dynamic social structure, the second of which demonstrates how rigid and formulaic genres can be when viewed within a static social structure.