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Genre Connectivity and Genre Drift in a Web of Genres

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The World-Wide Web may be conceived as a web of genres; a network of different web page genres connected by links. The chapter outlines an exploratory empirical investigation of genre connectivity in an academic web space.

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    Webometrics is the study of quantitative aspects of information resources, structures and technologies on the Web, drawing on bibliometric and informetric approaches from Library and Information Science [5].

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    See [3] and [4] for more details on the graph components in the model.

  3. 3.

    As noted, the overall study in this chapter had focus on small-world aspects of link structures in academic web spaces. Of course, network analytic approaches to genre connectivity could also be based on data from non-academic web spaces and without focus on small-world aspects of these web spaces.

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    Available at http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/pajek/

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    Lennart Björneborn

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    Serge Sharoff

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    Marina Santini

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Björneborn, L. (2010). Genre Connectivity and Genre Drift in a Web of Genres. In: Mehler, A., Sharoff, S., Santini, M. (eds) Genres on the Web. Text, Speech and Language Technology, vol 42. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9178-9_12

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