Editorial: Digital Genres and Multimodality

Multimodality through Physical Digital Design

This paper aims to deliver a better understanding of the relationship between the physical and virtual, two dimensional and three dimensional representations of form that are employed in the critical early stages of design. It presents findings from observations of practice undertaken to provide an initial dataset on how designers move between these representations, and of the kind and quantity...

Editorial: Digital Visions and Digital Identity

Editorial: Special Issue on "Security and Multimodality in Pervasive Environments"

Pervasive computing environments present unique challenges related to specific aspects of security and multimodality (SMPE). In fact, the accessibility of such an environment can be certainly improved using natural interfaces and multimodal interaction systems, which offer users the freedom to select one of multiple modes of interaction with services. They also offer users the opportunity to br...

Digital Genres and the New Burden of Fixity

Stability in the production and transmission of texts has been a taken-for-granted feature of communicative acts for much of history. In the past, this fixity (i.e., the reliability of texts not to change over space and time) has arisen from the interaction between immutable technologies (used to produce text) and social rigidity (in the structure and practices of discourse communities where te...

Collaborative Genres for Collaboration: Genre Systems in Digital Media

Using the concept of genre, we examined the use of Team Room to facilitate collaborative work in one organization. Team Room is a collaborative application built within Lotus Notes and designed specifically to support teams within organizational settings. We studied three teams’ communication in Team Room over seven months and found that some of the genres they enacted formed sets of interdepen...