What is Genre?

What is meant by the term 'GENRE'?

The word 'genre' refers to something having a distinctive or characteristic style. For example, a scientific report is written very differently to say, a children's story.

In a similar way we can identify different genres of multimedia products.

Using 'GENRE' to classify multimedia

Classifying multimedia according to genre means: Identifying a distinctive style, form or content apparante in a multimedia product and then grouping products together according to their similarity in this style.

Genre's include:

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