The home page as genre: a narrative approach

Author

Roberts, Gregory F.

Author_Institution

Georgetown Univ., Washington, DC, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

6-9 Jan 1998

Firstpage

78

Abstract

Demonstrates that personal home pages (PHPs) represent a distinct genre by using a functionalist, narrative analysis approach to address authors´ involvement strategies. PHPs differ from know other kinds of data because they are always changing and should be viewed as works-in-progress. This study examines a corpus of PHPs synchronically, focusing on how involvement strategies associate a scene with the audience´s imagination. Conclusions address the distinction between system and ritual constraints and their role in PHPs, developing expectations of what constitutes a PHP to the author and the audience, as well as the idea of prestige and PHP design

Keywords

Internet; human factors; hypermedia; personal computing; Web page design; World Wide Web; audience imagination; authors´ involvement strategies; functionalist approach; genre; narrative analysis; personal home pages; prestige; ritual constraints; synchronic examination; system constraints; works-in-progress; Art; Cellular neural networks; Data analysis; Layout; Vehicles; Web sites; Writing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 1998., Proceedings of the Thirty-First Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kohala Coast, HI

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8255-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1998.651686

Filename

651686