Today in class we talked about the six characteristics of digital discourse communities. I think I understood the concept. I’ve been thinking about this concept in my own writing for work, because my bosses and I have had to develop our own specialized lexicon to describe people, events, and different things that we do. This creates a bit of an in-group out-group phenomenon, that as the marketing person, I am trying to overcome so that we can increase our membership. I think I want to learn more about the difference between a mechanism and a genre.