Taking a genre perspective on design, this article proposes eight design recommendations for online newspapers. These recommendations are based on features that mediate a specific purpose and use between publisher and audience, which we describe as genre rules in terms of purpose, form, and positioning. They are also based on genre change regarding design, and the heritage from print regarding ...

This paper presents some findings around musical genres. The main goal is to analyse whether there is any agreement between a group of experts and a community, when defining a set of genres and their relationships. For this purpose, three different experiments are conducted using two datasets: the MP3.com expert taxonomy, and last.fm tags at artist level. The experimental results show a clear a...

In this paper, we propose an audio-visual approach to video genre categorization. It exploits audio, color, temporal and contour information, which are in general genre specific. Audio information is extracted at block-level, which has the advantage of capturing local temporal information. At temporal level, we asses action contents with respect to human perception. Further, color perception is...

While data encryption is an effective means of keeping data private it does not conceal the presence of ‘hidden’ information, rather it serves as an indicator that such data is present. Concealing information and hiding the fact that information is hidden are both desirable traits of a confidential data exchange, especially if that exchange takes place across a public network such as the Intern...

Electronic document management (EDM) relates to several modern information technologies. Little research on methods for practical development of EDM exists. Such method, based on the genre theory of organizational communication, was adopted by a team of EDM consultants who used and engineered it further along with their customer cases for developing EDM systems. These experiences were gathered ...

This  case  study  analyzes  how  a  Taiwanese  EFL  teacher  participating  in  a  U.S.  based MATESOL program made sense of systemic functional linguistics (SFL) and genre based pedagogy  in  designing  and  reflecting  on  literacy  instruction  for  EFL  learners  in  Taiwan. Using  longitudinal  ethnographic  methods,  the  findings  indicate  that  this  teacher’s conceptualization  of  g...