Digital Media Metaphors: A Critical Introduction
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- Synopsis
- Bringing together leading scholars from media studies and digital sociology, this edited volume provides a comprehensive introduction to digital media metaphors, unpacking their power and limitations.Digital technologies have reshaped our way of life. To grasp their dynamics and implications, people often rely on metaphors to provide a shared frame of reference. Scholars, journalists, tech companies, and policymakers alike speak of digital clouds, bubbles, frontiers, platforms, trolls, and rabbit holes. Some of these metaphors distort the workings of the digital realm and neglect key consequences. This collection, structured in three parts, explores metaphors across digital infrastructures, content, and users. Within these parts, each chapter examines a specific metaphor that has become near-ubiquitous in public debate. Doing so, the book engages not only with the technological, but also the social, political, and environmental implications of digital technologies and relations.This unique collection will interest students and scholars of digital media and the broader fields of media and communication studies, sociology, and science and technology studies.
- Copyright:
- 2025
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781040155820
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781032674599, 9781032674612, 9781032674605, 9781040155783
- Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis
- Date of Addition:
- 11/11/24
- Copyrighted By:
- selection and editorial matter, Johan Farkas and Marcus Maloney
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Social Studies
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- Johan Farkas
- Edited by:
- Marcus Maloney