Another one might be the Internet as a "frontier." Much has been written and criticized on that. I just wrote a paper on that called "Living in YouTubia: Bordering on Civility that address this metaphor. -Patricia G. Lange Postdoctoral Fellow School of Cinematic Arts University of Southern California --- On Sat, 6/28/08, Gordon Carlson <gordycarlson@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Gordon Carlson <gordycarlson@gmail.com> Subject: [Air-L] Metaphors in Technology To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Date: Saturday, June 28, 2008, 12:23 PM Hello all,
Many of you have helped me compile a list of technology metaphors. Several asked to see the list. So here we go. The following is a list of metaphors related to technology and its use. The emphasis is clearly on digital technology but some others are in there as well.
If you have additions to the list PLEASE do send them along, I would like to keep the list growing. If you have a dispute or other comment that should make for interesting conversation, as metaphorical as it might be on a mail list.
Thanks for all your help!
active and inactive bandwidth blog - web log?? blogosphere breadcrumbs brick and mortar broadband broken record (not digital but still a technology metaphor) bulletin boards calculating (as in a person is cold and calculating) chat "rooms" chatting citizen of the internet - netizen click cloud (storage and computing) cyberspace dashboard database deckware desktop dial a touch phone dial up internet access dialog boxes directory domain drop a packet email extranet files filing system firewall flame flaming folders forum forward (as in to forward an email) frames garbage can garbage in, garbage out gateway grinding (used in gaming to get lots of a resource) harvesting hit homepage hotspot hub inbox information superhighway instant messaging intranet link lurking menu mining, especially data mining mouse navigation open (as in a file or email) outbox owning someone (as in to defeat someone in a game, not unique to technology basis for pwned) palette portal programmed or hardwired people protocol
quad (a couple people mentioned this but I don't know why it is a metaphor, any help?)
recycle bin reply reserving a "seat" for an online course run search engine server shopping carts/basket slides in powerpoint spam speed dial (Opera browser) spyware surfing tabs tag tap (as in a line or phone which is no longer literal) terminal the computer going to "sleep" the whole concept of a virtual open house tree trojan horse trolling virus windows wiping out a team of players (gaming, not unique to technology) world wide web worm
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