Drawing on and developing new ideas of genre, this title includes the research that shows, on the contrary, that genre study is a powerful means of testing commonplaces about the Internet world and, in turn, that the Internet is a fertile field for theorising genre.

1. Preface; 2. Genres in the Internet: Innovation, evolution, and genre theory (by Giltrow, Janet); 3. Re-fusing form in genre study (by Devitt, Amy J.); 4. Lies at Wal-Mart: Style and the subversion of genre in the Life at Wal-Mart blog (by Puschmann, Cornelius); 5. Situating the public social actions of blog posts (by Grafton, Kathryn); 6. "Working consensus" and the rhetorical situation: The homeless blog's negotiation of public meta-genre (by Maurer, Elizabeth G.); 7. Brave new genre, or generic colonialism?: Debates over ancestry in Internet diaries (by McNeill, Laurie); 8. Online, multimedia case studies for professional education: Revisioning concepts of genre recognition (by Russell, David); 9. Nation, book, medium: New technologies and their genres (by Burgess, Miranda); 10. Critical genres: Generic changes of literary criticism in computer-mediated communication (by Domsch, Sebastian); 11. A model for describing 'new' and 'old' properties of CMC genres: The case of digital folklore (by Heyd, Theresa); 12. Questions for genre theory from the blogosphere (by Miller, Carolyn R.); 13. Index