Metaphors of Internet

Annette N. Markham (Professor of Media & Communication at RMIT University) is a pioneering researcher of digital culture. Her foundational ethnographic studies of mediated identities and lived experience through the Internet is well represented in her first book, Life Online: Researching Real Experience in Virtual Space. She is a globally recognized expert on rethinking frameworks for research practice in digitally saturated contexts, as well as her work around ethics of care and impact needed for building better futures in algorithmic societies. Markham is founder and director of Future Making Research Consortium and STEEM: Center for the Study of Technological, Ethical, and Emerging Methods.Katrin Tiidenberg (Professor of Visual Culture & Social Media at Tallinn University) is a digital sociologist and author of Sex and Social Media (with Emily van der Nagel), Selfies: Why We Love (and Hate) Them, and Body and Soul on the Internet: Making Sense of Social Media (in Estonian). She is currently writing and publishing on the deplatforming of sex on social media, visual social media practices, and digital research ethics. Tiidenberg is on the Executive Board of the Association of Internet Researchers and the Estonian Young Academy of Sciences.

“What language will internet research speak in the years to come? Read this innovative collection and find out what you will be thinking about, researching, and dreaming about, when you talk technology. A fun and forward thinking patchwork of ideas weaved together by scholars known for being ahead of their time.”—Zizi Papacharissi, Professor and Head of Communication, Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago

• List of Figures and Table – Acknowledgments – Introducing the Metaphors of the Internet – Annette N. Markham: Ways of Being in the Digital Age – Katrin Tiidenberg: A Wormhole, a Home, an Unavoidable Place. Introduction to "Metaphors of the Internet" – Kevin Driscoll: Losing Your Internet: Narratives of Decline among Long-Time Users – Ways of Doing – Nadia Hakim-Fernández: Workplace-Making among Mobile Freelancers – Jeff Thompson: Turker Computers – Tijana Hirsch: Migration of Self – Whitney Phillips: Pinball Machines, Cardboard Cutouts, and Private Parties: Three Metaphors for Conceptualizing Memetic Spread – Katrin Tiidenberg: ‘Instagrammable’ as a Metaphor for Looking and Showing in Visual Social Media – Crystal Abidin: Growing Up and Growing Old on the Internet: Influencer Life Courses and the Internet as Home – Andee Baker: Remixing the Music Fan Experience: Rock Concerts in Person and Online – Cathy Fowley: Chronotope – Anette Grønning: Ecologies for Connecting across Generations – Priya C. Kumar: The Unavoidable Place: How Parents Manage the Socially Mediated Visibility of Their Young Children Ways of Becoming – Son Vivienne: Trans-being – Craig Hamilton/Sarah Raine: Popular Music Reception: Tools of Future-Making, Spaces, and Possibilities of Being – Maria Schreiber/Patricia Prieto-Blanco: Co-becoming Hybrid Entities through Collaboration – Interview with Artist Cristina Nuñez – Katie Warfield: Trans-constituting Place Online – Ways of Being With – Tobias Raun: Facebook as a Wormhole between Life and Death – xtine burrough: A Vigil for Some Bodies – Sarah Schorr/Winnie Soon: Screenshooting Life Online: Two Artworks – Daisy Pignetti: Hurricane Season: Annual Assessments of Loss – Theresa M. Senft: Complicating the Internet as a Way of Being: The Case of Cloud Intimacy – Annette N. Markham: Echolocating the Digital Self – Whose Internet? Whose Metaphors? – Carmel Vaisman: Metaphoric Meltdowns: Debates over the Meaning of Blogging on Israblog – Jessa Lingel: Political Ideologies of Online Spaces: Anarchist Models for Boundary Making – Polina Kolozaridi/Anna Shchetvina/Katrin Tiidenberg: No Country for IT-Men: Post-Soviet Internet Metaphors of Who and How Interacts with the Internet – Ryan M. Milner: Remixed into Existence: Life Online as The Internet Comes of Age – References – About the Authors – Index