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 artwork 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, off ering 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.
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Table of Contents
Section 1:Introducing the Metaphors of the Internet
Chapter One: Ways of Being in the Digital Age
Annette N. Markham
Chapter Two: A wormhole, a Home, an Unavoidable Place. Introduction to “Metaphors of the Internet”
Katrin Tiidenberg
Chapter Three: Losing Your Internet: Narratives of Decline among Long-Time Users
Kevin Driscoll
Chapter Four: Workplace-Making among Mobile Freelancers
Nadia Hakim-Fernández
Chapter Five: Turker Computers
Jeff Thompson
Chapter Six: Migration of Self
Tijana Hirsch
Whitney Phillips
Chapter Eight: ‘Instagrammable’ as a Metaphor for Looking and Showing in Visual Social Media
Katrin Tiidenberg
Section 3:Ways of Relating
Chapter Nine: Growing Up and Growing Old on the Internet: Influencer Life Courses and the Internet as Home
Crystal Abidin
Chapter Ten: Remixing the Music Fan Experience: Rock Concerts in Person and Online
Andee Baker
Chapter Eleven: Chronotope
Cathy Fowley
Chapter Twelve: Ecologies for Connecting across Generations
Anette Grønning
Chapter Thirteen: The Unavoidable Place: How Parents Manage the Socially Mediated Visibility of Their Young Children
Priya C. Kumar
Section 4:Ways of Becoming
Chapter Fourteen: Trans-being
Son Vivienne
Chapter Fifteen: Popular Music Reception: Tools of Future-Making, Spaces, and Possibilities of Being
Craig Hamilton and Sarah Raine
Chapter Sixteen: Co-becoming Hybrid Entities through Collaboration
Maria Schreiber and Patricia Prieto-Blanco
Chapter Seventeen: Interview with Artist Cristina Nuñez
Chapter Eighteen: Trans-constituting Place Online
Katie Warfield
Section 5:Ways of Being With
Chapter Nineteen: Facebook as a Wormhole between Life and Death
Tobias Raun
Chapter Twenty: A Vigil for Some Bodies
xtine burrough
Chapter Twenty-One: Screenshooting Life Online: Two Artworks
Sarah Schorr and Winnie Soon
Chapter Twenty-Two: Hurricane Season: Annual Assessments of Loss
Daisy Pignetti
Chapter Twenty-Three: Complicating the Internet as a Way of Being: The Case of Cloud Intimacy
Theresa M. Senft
Chapter Twenty-Four: Echolocating the Digital Self
Annette N. Markham
Section 6:Whose Internet? Whose Metaphors?
Chapter Twenty-Five: Metaphoric Meltdowns: Debates over the Meaning of Blogging on Israblog
Carmel Vaisman
Chapter Twenty-Six: Political Ideologies of Online Spaces: Anarchist Models for Boundary Making
Jessa Lingel
Chapter Twenty-Seven: No Country for IT-Men: Post-Soviet Internet Metaphors of Who and How Interacts with the Internet
Polina Kolozaridi, Anna Shchetvina, and Katrin Tiidenberg
