The Website Genre

Well, since websites are not a particularly distinct genre, there is some leeway here. Some websites are media based, and some are commercially based, and others are user-generated content. People of all walks of life are active in the online genre, as anyone with internet access can quickly post a blog or even make a simple, free website. Most all Americans and all modernized people are experienced with websites, so the genre is not too particularly foreign.

The website genre can be very anonymous, for good and for bad. This allows for websites like Wikipedia, which is surprisingly accurate but still able to be edited by anyone anywhere. The ease of creating a website lends to a discredibility of the internet in general though, as most people are more wary of internet sources than traditional media like books. The website genre is mainly informative, as people want to share ideas or products or accomplishments with large numbers of people.

For sources, I could cite sources that represent the above formats (wikipedia.org, blogger.com, amazon.com, cnn.com), or sources that show that younger people are 3x as likely to use the internet than retired people (www.pewinternet.org/trends/User_Demo_1.11.07.htm), but the above information is the result of using the internet for years, and it is a compilation of many of my experiences. It is nearly impossible to define or encompass the scope of the internet and its far reaching affects on our daily lives, so the genre is quite vast.