@inbook {2010,
	title = {Internet Genres},
	booktitle = {Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences},
	year = {2010},
	publisher = {CRC Press},
	organization = {CRC Press},
	edition = {3rd ed},
	abstract = {Rhetoricians since Aristotle have attempted to classify communications or documents into categories or {\textquotedblleft}genres{\textquotedblright} with similar form, topic or purpose. This article surveys research on genre as it relates to Internet documents. The article briefly presents the concept of genre in general, and then reviews the evolution and emergence of genres on the Internet. It concludes with an examination of the possible use of genre for improving information access on the Internet, with specific discussion of the issues in developing taxonomies of genre and automatically recognizing document genre.},
	attachments = {https://genres.syr.edu/sites/crowston.syr.edu/files/elischapter.pdf},
	author = {Kevin Crowston}
}
@article {Kwasnik:2005,
	title = {Introduction to the special issue: Genres of digital documents},
	journal = {Information, Technology \& People},
	volume = {18},
	number = {2},
	year = {2005},
	pages = {76{\textendash}88},
	abstract = {Purpose {\textendash} To introduce the special issue on {\textquotedblleft}Genres of digital documents.{\textquotedblright} While there are many definitions of genre, most include consideration of the intended communicative purpose, form and sometimes expected content of a document. Most also include the notion of social acceptance, that a document is of a particular genre to the extent that it is recognized as such within a given discourse community.

Design/methodology/approach {\textendash} The article reviews the notion of document genre and its applicability to studies of digital documents and introduces the four articles in the special issue. 

Findings {\textendash} Genre can be studied based on intrinsic genre attributes or on the extrinsic function that genre fulfills in human activities. Studies on intrinsic attributes include classifications of genres as clusters of attributes, though these classifications can be problematic because documents can be used in flexible ways. Also, new information technologies have enabled the appearance of novel genres. Studies on extrinsic function include ways to use genre for education or information accesses, as well as the use of genre as a lens for understanding communications in organizations. The four articles in the special issue illustrate these approaches.

Originality/value {\textendash} The paper provides a framework that organizes the range of research about genres of digital documents that should be helpful to those reading this research or planning their own studies.},
	doi = {10.1108/09593840510601487},
	attachments = {https://genres.syr.edu/sites/crowston.syr.edu/files/itp2005genreintro.pdf},
	author = {Kwa{\'s}nik, Barbara H. and Kevin Crowston}
}
@article {Kwasnik:2000,
	title = {Identifying document genre to improve web search effectiveness},
	volume = {27},
	number = {2},
	year = {2001},
	pages = {23{\textendash}26},
	issn = {0095-4403},
	doi = {10.1002/bult.194},
	url = {http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Dec-01/kwasnikartic.html},
	author = {Kwa{\'s}nik, Barbara H. and Kevin Crowston and Nilan, Michael and Roussinov, Dmitri}
}
