What type of page is this?: genre as web descriptor Mark A. Rosso   View Paper (PDF)   Return to Poster Session Abstract . Based on these observations, one might infer that some substantial amount of genre knowledge exists among users, even from different cultures (in this case, the United States, Germany, and Sweden). BIBTEX  Blades, R. (1999). Does genre define the shape of information: the role of form and function in user interaction with digital documents. Proceedings of the 62th American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting, 693--704.}, ©2006 Association for Computing Machinery