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Internet Conceptual Metaphors
2016
Journal of Siberian Federal University
Moreover, the main focus of the article is to single out central domains used for Internet metaphors. The first section of this paper discusses the problem of metaphorisation. ...
use the same or different metaphors to conceive Internet. ...
, "Which domains are used for Internet metaphors?". ...
doi:10.17516/1997-1370-2016-9-2-470-480
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Digital Literacy and Metaphorical Models
2014
Multidisciplinary Journal for Education, Social and Technological Sciences
Digital Literacy The appearance and wide use of computers, as well as the Internet, offers the opportunity to devise changes in our conception of literacy, allowing for a more precise skill notion, i.e ...
As a result, the screen has become the main channel of communication where the combination of reading and technological skills has created a new form of literacy for the management of the Web and the Internet ...
We have shown how some source domains allow for metaphorical cognitive models used in internet genres. ...
doi:10.4995/muse.2014.2991
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Adult Brain: Game of Metaphors for Understanding the Internet
2016
Ariadna
With the increasing apogee of the digital world and Internet use by older people, one may wonder how adults understand these virtual spaces. ...
The aim of this article is to see to what extent the Conceptual Theory of Metaphor and the Idealized Cognitive Models (Lakoff and Johnson, 1980) may help understand the meaning and structure of a website ...
Further research is needed in order to find out to what extent these mental structures based on conceptual metaphors (or metaphorical ICMs) are the same for the website developer and for its users. ...
doi:10.6035/ariadna.2016.3.2
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Analysing the Digital World and its Metaphoricity: Cybergenres and Cybermetaphors in the 21st Century
2019
Cultura, Lenguaje y Representación
After analysing these Internet sites, it is now possible to state that recognising metaphorical models used in Internet genres (i.e. ...
These, in turn, will be used to describe metaphorical expressions derived from conceptual metaphors that help in understanding the coherent structure and organization of the digital environment analysed ...
doi:10.6035/clr.2019.22.2
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Even the interface is for sale
[chapter]
2001
Current issues in linguistic theory
the internet was conceptualized as an elaborate conduit metaphor where the internet is conceived as the flow of goods that can travel to the user (the cyberspace conceptual metaphor) or by using a spatialization ...
an increasing role in the content of a web site. ...
Acknowledgments The actual writing of this paper and the analysis of visual blends were carried out while I was supported by a grant from the Danish Fulbright Commission to the Center for Semiotic Research ...
doi:10.1075/cilt.205.12roh
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Wired for Thought: How the Brain is Shaping the Future of the Internet
2011
Journal of Education and Vocational Research
structure and possible functions of the Internet as such. ...
Any important change then in the structure of the algorithms that structure the function of a search engine can have huge consequences for the value of a company. ...
doi:10.22610/jevr.v1i2.6
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CROATIAN TOURISM WEB SITE AS TEXT TYPE
2007
Tourism and hospitality management
The aim of this paper is to present the web site as a new form of the tourist supply. ...
The results of this analysis will show the tendencies in the creation of the Croatian tourism web sites. ...
Popular original sources for metaphors in the Internet can be found particularly in the display spaces of the everyday life. ...
doi:10.20867/thm.13.3.19
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Metaphors Ubiquitous in Computer and Internet Terminologies
2013
Journal of Arts and Humanities
Concomitant with this computer and Internet culture is the large amount of computer and Internet metaphorical language. ...
This thesis would like to employ the contemporary cognitive linguistic theories of metaphor to make a systematic analysis of the metaphors ubiquitous in computer and Internet terminologies. ...
Acknowledgment This is one of research results of "Teaching Reform Project" (No. [2012]401 and "Planning Project" (No. XJK012CGD028) of Hunan Province, China. ...
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From Virtual Organization to E-Business
2010
International Journal of E-Business Research
The metaphorical analysis adopted in this study provides the analytical power to conceptualize the social structure of virtual organization in the context of structuration theory with the process of grounded ...
As the e-business structuration indicates in this study, virtualization, the metaphor of virtual organization is interpreted as flexible domination, where the rational relationships in power distribution ...
the modern use of metaphors. ...
doi:10.4018/jebr.2010100102
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Metaphors, Visual Blends and the Ideology of Information Technology
2017
Hermes - Journal of Language and Communication Studies
I conclude by summarizing the ways in which current ideological uses of conceptual metaphors and conceptual blends are assimilating the older innovative software design metaphors for operating systems. ...
I apply Lakoff and Johnson's theory of conceptual metaphor to the linguistic and visual evidence, but then argue that Fauconnier and Turner's theory of conceptual blending is useful to explain the visual ...
Acknowledgments The actual writing of this paper and the analysis of visual blends were carried out while I was supported by a grant from the Danish Fulbright Commission to the Center for Semiotic Research ...
doi:10.7146/hjlcb.v13i24.25572
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Typology of Web 2.0 spheres: Understanding the cultural dimensions of social media spaces
2012
Current Sociology
As an alternative to the popular 'information highway' metaphor to describe the Internet, Stefik suggested the adoption of four metaphors, each focusing on a different facet: 1) Internet as the digital ...
of social structure, Marx's 'base-superstructure' metaphor fostering dichotomy and causality of social relations to Parson's utilization of thermodynamics terminology that dangerously took us on the path ...
doi:10.1177/0011392112440439
fatcat:yxqwrku7bbg6lj24d4fhtnppbi
Book Reviews
1998
Journal of business and technical communication
four metaphors he has derived from writings and thoughts about the Internet, or aspects of the Internet. ...
However, the four metaphors Stefik adds to the mix, are, unfortunately, attenuations of the I-Way metaphor. ...
doi:10.1177/1050651998012001008
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Metaphors and models in Internet-based learning
2001
Computers & Education
Most Internet-based education and training sites use the metaphor of a virtual classroom, and the methodology follows the model of a virtual lecture. ...
The article concludes with a list of "Lessons learnt" from 4 years of lecturing in a webbased environment. # ...
Acknowledgements Patsy Clarke's effort in classifying the classroom messages (Fig. 6) is gratefully acknowledged. ...
doi:10.1016/s0360-1315(01)00049-5
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Page 134 of Communication Abstracts Vol. 26, Issue 1
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2003
Communication Abstracts
At least 75% of all sites received maximum scores for items related to the background of developers and spon sors, purpose of site, and site design. ...
This article demonstrates the power of the Zaltman-metaphor-elicitation tech nique (ZMET) to gain consumer insight by first eliciting and then mapping consum- ers’ knowledge structures. ...
VPNs as boundary objects of the internet: (mis)trust in the translation(s)
2020
Internet Policy Review
Using the examples of 'going dark' as a metaphor for understanding the risks posed by end-to-end encryption, the result from a law enforcement and regulatory view, based on this metaphorical interpretation ...
VPNs that 'just work' in tech parlance, disappear for their users and become part of the internet, as opposed to being things to do or use on the internet. ...
doi:10.14763/2020.4.1513
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