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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
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Remixed into Existence: Life Online as The Internet Comes of Age
Ryan M. Milner
References
About the Authors
Index
FIGURES
Figure 1.1: IRC chat client, basic interface in 1998. Source: Screenshot from Google image search. Attribution unavailable, original image has unknown provenance.
Figure 1.2: MUSH client for interacting in multiple multi user dimensions at once, circa 1998, actual date unknown. Source: Screenshot taken by Nick Gammon. Image CC BY 3.0 AU.
Figure 1.3: ASCII text map of PhoenixMUD, photographer unknown. Source: Image CC BY 3.0, Martin Dodge.
Figure 1.4: Cospace, a browser prototype emphasizing users as avatars and transportation to websites through portals. Source: Screenshot by Martin Dodge originally appeared in the Atlas of Cyberspace project. Attribution of source material for screenshot: Cospace.org., interface developed by Thomas Kirk and Peter Selfridge at AT&T Labs, circa 1998.
Figure 1.5: Geographic depiction of size of search engines in 2000, as visualized by the company antarti.ca in 2000 (later known as Map.Net). Source: Screenshot by Martin Dodge originally appeared in the Atlas of Cyberspace project. Attribution of source material for screenshot: Map.Net., circa 2000.
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Figure 1.6: CityOfNews, an experimental interface by Flavia Sparacino, MIT Media Lab, 1996–2000. Source: Screenshot by Martin Dodge originally appeared in the Atlas of Cyberspace project. Attribution of source material for screenshot: Flavia Sparacino, circa 2000.
Figure 1.7: Corning advertisement envisioning a future with embedded smart technologies. Source: Screenshot taken by Annette Markham on 9 September 2019. Attribution of source