Abstract
The six papers in this year’s minitrack on Genres of Digital Documents demonstrate the impressive range of research dealing with genre theories and models as well as the genres themselves—their nature and their function in communication, society, and work, as well as our ability to exploit genre information for enhancing the representation and retrieval of digital documents. In “What are the Characteristics of Digital Genres? — Genre Theory from a Multimodal Perspective,” Inger Askehave and Anne Ellerup Nielsen start at the foundational level of genre studies and extend the Swalesian genre model to add Finneman’s concept of the navigating mode. By explicitly adding the aspect of movement and navigation, they thereby produce a two-dimensional genre model that does not isolate any given genre from its me
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