Spatiotemporal Metaphors and Internet Technologies

1st International Workshop on Blending Physical and Digital Spaces on the Internet

Vlad Tanasescu

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PID  :  25249

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

Metaphors are used to describe the Internet, comparing it to a `library', a `highway', a `web', stating that it brings us `closer' and applying various other notions of distance, shape, size, movement, orientation and navigation to it. I describe the metaphoric process and its spatiotemporal aspects, and argue that, in order to explain its dynamics, a framework based on processes with variable identities is preferable to one of static entities with fixed attributes.