TY - BOOK ID - 147821389 TI - Digital media metaphors : a critical introduction AU - Farkas, Johan AU - Maloney, Marcus PY - 2025 SN - 9781032674599 1032674598 1032674601 9781032674605 PB - Abingdon, Oxon: New York, NY: Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Information society KW - Internet KW - Digital media KW - Metaphor UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:147821389 AB - "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"-- ER -