Metaphors of Internet: Ways of Being in the Age of Ubiquity

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