Recombinant text when compared to other types of collaborative media has a distinctive communication pattern. Most of the collaborative media has a centralized pattern but in recombinant text, the pattern is distributed and is from peer to peer. This facilitates the formation of multiple copies for each of the authors of the text. The author can take the contributions to the text from peer to peer and due to this, the multiple variations caused by the divergences of the text can stay at the same time together. Spatial diversity in the text exist in the collective form and it is considered population in the statistical terms. Recombinant text has many characteristics as the existence of the text is in the form of population of variants, one for every author. The variation of the text is so due to the various distribution.
The numerous population of the recombinant text remains as the collection of documents on the web, to be used as required. The documents have relation with the common origin of the text. The author of the text has creative and editorial freedom which increases the credibility of the texts. Another characteristic of recombinant texts are that the author can swap fragments and arrangements of text from peer to peer. With this characteristic of the text all authors can take all the contributions of other authors and collaborate it to make new content. The change or transfer in the documents are possible by simple computing functions like copy-paste. The copy-paste by the aid of recombinant transfer of information has its own advantages. In recombinant transfer there are guides that can aid in revealing sameness of patterns in the text and the transfer itself. This can be done by the help of the genetic alignment.
Recombinant text has genes that can trace the authorship of the text. The original contributions of the text are coded and remembered by the system. All the variations are recorded by the means of patchwork of discrete genes. The genes not only perform these functions but also the origin and ancestry. When some portion of a text is imported to another document, certain section of authorship is imported too. This document when goes through genealogical trace, all the contributions, alterations and authorships are easily revealed. |