language and websites

How does technology influence language in this instance?

the context of this website is simply facts on gangster rap. the audience could be aimed at an older audience because many old people could want to wider there knowledge on rap in the world today. another audience could be younger people surfing the internet and trying to find out about the history of gangsta rap because it originated in the 1080s. a purpose for the website is to inform the target audience and a secondary purpose could be to entertain.

the language used in the text is standard english mainly aimed at educated people maybe at an older age because of the use of lexical choices such as 'popularized' and 'lucrative' this could make the text look more professional with facts because anyone can write on wikipedia, so this makes the information on the site more believeable to the audience. the colours blue and white are mainly used to display the pure factual side of the text with usually one picture summing the article up. blue highlighted underlined words are used also, to click to see what that certain word means and it also means that when you click on that word it will take you to a page that wikipedia has on that word.
the discourse structure is layed out in paragraphs usually starting with the history of te subject because this is what people are usually intressed in.