this project is designed to lay out the basic frames for how users, designers, and researchers define and make sense of internet technologies and computer-mediated communication.

it begins with the premise that users, policy makers, and scholars experience and talk about CMC within the continuum of Tool...Place...Way of Being.... . The project is to interrogate this hueristic by conducting metaphor analyses of popular media, government documents, and scholarly works.

• metaphor analyses of user discourse
• meta analysis of published academic research conducted since the mid '80s
• analysis of governmental statements
• rhetorical analysis of website and interface design

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Resources:

• metaphors we live by
• digital humanities
• metaphor bibliography
• a Yahoo! list of metaphor resources
• metaphors we compute by
• encyclopaedia metaphorica
• Tony Veale's PhD Thesis on Metaphor, FWIW
• metaphors and governance

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