What Does the Internet Look Like?
- Kind
- Journal Article
- Date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The Baffler Literary Magazine
- Place
- Chicago, IL
- Volume / pages
- Vol 2, No. 01
2 memes from this reference
How the Internet Serves as a Plot Device in Modern Story Telling
In the tween movie Twilight, heroine Bella discovers that her boyfriend Edward is a vampire by consulting a website with a convenient link to supernatural occurrences in her very own tiny town. The Internet is here collectively written, but perfectly tailored to exactly her individual needs. It is not the wizened…
We Delude Ourselves with Metaphors About the Internet
We are beholden to countless Internet fantasies: It's quicker than the speed fo ligth; it appears and dissolves at whim; it's guarded by big strapping men friendly to our own interests and hostile to the interests of others; it's magical, evanescent, as portable as our own bodies and imaginations; it looks like a…