Digital genres: A challenge to traditional genre theory

Information Technology and People

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 120-141

  Askehave, Inger ^a   Nielsen, Anne Ellerup ^a  

^a AARHUS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Digital storage; Hypertext Markup Language; Worldwide web

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; HTML; RESEARCH; SOCIAL ASPECTS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DIGITAL GENRES; GENRE MODEL; GENRE THEORY; HOMEPAGES;

DIGITAL STORAGE;

EID: 20444466114     PISSN: 09593845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09593840510601504     Document Type: Article

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