Lab+3

Why are new genres created? Why is the definition of genre controversial and not so applicable to the formation of digital genres?
Genre is a french word meaning 'gender'. Genre is used in popular television criticism, in programming strategies and schedules, and in newspaper and magazines. The most common genres are commercials, news programs, situation comedies, soap operas, documentaries, sports shows, talk shows, action adventure programs, detective shows, science fiction shows, hospital dramas, and westerns. Conventions used in narrative texts vary from genre to genre. Some conventions include: time when story takes place; location where story takes place; characteristics of heroes and heroines, etc.New genres are therefore created because media is constantly evolving, it is not stagnant. New forms of media and conventions are contantly evolving and therefore to accomodate this new conventions, new genres are created.

Definition of genre is controversial because genre emergence is now seen as more rapid than previously thought because the shared matching of expectation and preference across this community of users suggests that the personal home page might be the first unique digital information genre. This means that it may be possible to study genre formation in real-time in digital environments.