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The Internet as Place and Person

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The Internet as Place and Person

Why do we anthropomorphize the internet?

Chris Martin
Jun 15, 2020
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The Internet as Place and Person

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As the internet has aged and evolved, the way we talk about it has changed.

Joanne McNeil writes in her fantastic book Lurking (emphasis mine):

People used to talk about the internet as a place. The information superhighway. A frontier. The internet was something to get on. Even the desktop metaphor was in turn clarifying, then confusing: it helped people…

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