Other articles on this topic include:
Brooks, K. "Reading and Writing Hypertext: A Genre-based Approach to Hypertext Autobiography."

Dillon & Gushrowski, "Genres and the Web: Is the personal home page the first uniquely digital genre?"

Erickson, T. "Social Interaction on the Net: Virtual Community as Participatory Genre." In Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science, January 1997, Vol VI, pp. 13-21, 1997.

Also see Yates, J., Orlikowski, W.J., and Rennecker, J. "Collaborative Genres for Collaboration: Genre Systems in Digital Media" In Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science, January 1997, Vol VI, pp. 50-59, 1997

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Mary-Louise Craven
Associate Professor,
Communication Studies Program, Social Science Division,
York University, Toronto