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[Webinar] Genres of disclosure: Legibility and Digital Surveillance

Thu, Nov 05

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Prof. Rodney H. Jones University of Reading, The U.K.

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[Webinar] Genres of disclosure:  Legibility and Digital Surveillance
[Webinar] Genres of disclosure:  Legibility and Digital Surveillance

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Nov 05, 2020, 6:00 PM – 6:50 PM

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Genres of disclosure used in digital surveillance, while sharing some similarities with analogue genres of disclosure, are unique in a number of ways. Genres such as chat platforms, search engines, shopping sites, and social media sites, like older genres of disclosure, are designed to reproduce particular configurations of people, technology and practice that yield identifiable and socially meaningful forms of interaction and information disclosure. The main difference is that digital genres of disclosure rely less on the texts that people create and more on the interactional ‘residue’ (or metadata) they leave behind when creating these texts. In this section I will use the principles from genre analysis explained above to analyze a range of representative digital genres of disclosure such as permissions dialogues for websites and apps, social media sites (in particular, Facebook), and online quizzes and surveys that gather marketing information.

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