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spir-10027	Markham, Annette; Lingel, Jessa; Møller, Kristian; Driscoll, Kevin; Warfield, Katie	Making Sense Of Life In 2017 - Metaphors Of The Internet	2017.0	18	.pdf	application/pdf	7066	385	52	In the late 1990s, metaphors functioned as sense-making devices for internet users experimenting with new forms of computer-mediated communication. Markham (1998) has pointed out the ways in which the internet has been conceptualized as a tool, and in a political narrative, early internet discourse positioned the web as a tool of democracy.	cache/spir-10027.pdf	txt/spir-10027.txt