Bridging the gap between hard and soft information genres

The genre theory has been earlier introduced as a means for analyzing organizational communication. The terms hard and soft information genre have been employed to refer to the extent and explicity of the rules that the genres are enacted by in a particular communication community. People have widely learned to use genres without explicit rules for their purpose, structure, and other features. For computer-mediated information management, techniques like SGML/XML have been developed to allow 

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: IRMA
• Authors: Anne Karjalainen, Airi Salminen
• Keywords: Genre Theory, Information Technology, IRMA 2000, Particular Communication Community, Soft Information Genre