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juli 01, 2004
Bloggning och metaforer
danah boyd om bloggning - och annan "social teknologi" - och metaforer: blogging is trapped in a metaphor
Sociable technologies are all built on metaphors. They are often an attempt to model a set of practices already known in everyday life. Yet, as models, the technologies are not the same as the metaphors on which they are based. The result is an entirely new form that encourages entirely new practices.
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What is special (and magnificently more frustrating) about blogs is that they stem from many metaphors, including newspapers/magazines, journals/diaries, and log notebooks. No wonder people are up in arms screaming that it's not like a newspaper, it's like a diary! or vice versa. They're both right and wrong. If you're stuck in a metaphoric understanding of blogging, the conflicting metaphors are problematic and discount your approach to the system.
I en av kommentarerna nämns två paper av Isabel D'Hanis som verkar vara intressanta:
A logical approach to the analysis of metaphors
The use of metaphors in scientific development: A logical approach.
Posted by hakank at juli 1, 2004 06:33 FM Posted to Blogging