Genre Systems and Social Media

I hope to now switch the blog to a particular focus on genre systems in the web 2.0 culture.  With the advent of web 2.0, discourses have interacting on a regular basis and texts and meaning are being processed through a carefully and organically constructed system of genres.  Viral Videos, Blogs, Mini-Blogs (Tweets), Photo Sharing, Social Networking Groups and Pages, Websites, Wikis all constructing meaning for one set of social actions.  

Multiplicity hasn't all of a sudden taken over.  Genre systems have existed for a while.  Web 2.0 has however, made these systems much more transparent.  The Iranian Elections and the Health Care debate all beckoned texts that were created out a system of multiple genres.  

This blog will hopefully reveal some examples of these genre systems, and how professional writers must learn to construct and interact with these systems to create effective, pragmatic, and humane communication.