The appropriateness of Swedish municipality web site designs
Proceedings of the 4th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: changing roles
Zero, single, or multi? Genre of web pages through the users' perspective
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
A genre perspective on online newspaper front page design
Journal of Web Engineering
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The digital version of the newspaper broadsheet is thebasis of an evolving genre capable of supporting morethan just the presentation of electronic news. Thephrase, "broadsheet genre", refers to both thebroadsheet form and the characteristics of the contentpresented in this form. When the content is electronicnews, it is not unlike a print newspaper supplementedwith video and radio components. The broadsheet genreprovides a consistent, familiar metaphor for readingnews and is very appropriate for the integratedpresentation of text, photographs, video clips, andadvertisements. It also supports the ludenic or playtheory of newsreading in which there is no well-articulatedinformation need and the process of readingthe news is as important as the information gained.We suggest that the genre also supports a ludenic orplay theory of Internet access, i.e., the browsing,skimming, or surfing of largely temporary data, such asthat culled from the Internet, in which the process ofaccess is as important as the information gained. As anexample of the broadsheet genre for Internet access, aprototype has been developed as a "net-top" forintegrated access to email, newsgroups, Web searchingby agents, video display, and Internet phone and radio.