“The ↑ DGI [Digital Genres Initiative] is a loosely organized network of fellow-thinking intellectuals, academics, and computer geeks. The goal of the DGI is to spur debate and thinking about the way that digital technology allows us to think and communicate with one another. The DGI is dedicated to the idea that some of the best thinking about new digital technologies comes from the people who make and use them even as academics and intellectuals provide a unique and valuable perspective. The DGI is committed to creating a space where the academy and the internet can cross-polinate. The DGI is dedicated to the idea that some of the best thinking about new digital technologies comes from the people who have a foot in both worlds.”
via golublog

“[…] the DGI is based on the idea that digital and network technologies are creating new methods of communication that, like the popular genres of the 1920s, allow novel methods of creativity and expressivity. Moving away from Seldes’ concept of ‘art’ to a more embracing notion of ‘genre’ (Bakhtin) as a general method of understanding the structured, meaningful, and dialogic nature of cultural production, the DGI examines a wide variety of cultural production enabled by digital technology. We argue that these new genres – the genres that will preoccupy us on this side of the millennium – are as important as the popular genres of the 1920s that preceded them.”
via entry at digital genres