Spatiotemporal Metaphors and Internet Technologies
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چکیده
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.
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