Screen LibraryMetaphors of internet : ways of being in the age of ubiquity /
"What happens when the internet is absorbed into everyday life? How do we make sense of something that is invisible but still so central? A group of digital culture experts address these questions in Metaphors of Internet: Ways of Being in the Age of Ubiquity. Twenty years ago, the internet was...
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| Group Author: | ; |
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| Published: |
Peter Lang Publishing, Inc.,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2020] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Digital formations,
volume 122 |
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| Summary: |
"What happens when the internet is absorbed into everyday life? How do we make sense of something that is invisible but still so central? A group of digital culture experts address these questions in Metaphors of Internet: Ways of Being in the Age of Ubiquity. Twenty years ago, the internet was imagined as standing apart from humans. Metaphorically it was a frontier to explore, a virtual world to experiment in, an ultra-high-speed information superhighway. Many popular metaphors have fallen out of use, while new ones arise all the time. Today we speak of data lakes, clouds and AI. The essays and artworks in this book evoke the mundane, the visceral, and the transformative potential of the internet by exploring the currently dominant metaphors. Together they tell a story of kaleidoscopic diversity of how we experience the internet, offering a richly textured glimpse of how the internet has both disappeared and at the same time, has fundamentally transformed everyday social customs, work, and life, death, politics, and embodiment"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xvi, 274 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), form ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-260) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781433174506 (paperback) : 1433174502 (paperback) 9781433174490 (hardcover) 1433174499 (hardcover) 9781433174513 (electronic book) 1433174510 (electronic book) 9781433174520 (electronic publication) 1433174529 (electronic publication) 9781433174537 (mobi) 1433174537 (mobi) |
| Index Number: | HM851 |
| CLC: | TP393.4-05 |
| Call Number: | TP393.4-05/M587 |
| Contents: |
Ways of being in a digital age / A wormhole, a home, an unavoidable place. Introduction to "Metaphors of the Internet" / Losing your internet : narratives of decline among long-time users / Workplace-making among mobile freelancers / Turker computers / Migration of self / Pinball machines, cardboard cutouts, and private parties : three metaphors for conceptualizing memetic spread / 'Instgrammable' as a metaphor for looking and showing in visual social media / Growing up and growing old on the internet : influencer life courses and the internet as home / Remixing the music fan experience : rock concerts in person and online / Chronotope / Ecologies for connecting across generations / The unavoidable place : how parents manage the socially mediated visibility of their young children / Trans-being / Popular music reception : tools of future-making, spaces, and possibilities of being / Co-becoming hybrid entities through collaboration / Interview with artist Cristina Nuñez -- Trans-constituting place online / Facebook is a wormhole between life and death / A vigil for some bodies / Screenshooting life online : two artworks / Hurricane season : annual assessments of loss / Complicating the Internet as a way of being : the case of cloud intimacy / Echolocating the digital self / Metaphoric meltdowns : debates over the meaning of blogging and Israblog / Political ideologies of online spaces : anarchist models for boundary making / No country for IT-men : post-Soviet internet metaphors of who and how interacts with the internet / Remixed into existence : life online as the internet comes of age / |