The Openness Metaphor - Contemporary Understandings of the Digital

    Project: Research

    Project Details

    Description

    This project uses conceptual metaphor theory to study how contemporary internet is understood, particularly focusing the metaphor of "open" and "openness". The results are argued to be of relevance for how businesses and regulation of the digital domain develop, along with how we understand and think of new media and culture.
    StatusFinished
    Effective start/end date2016/08/012016/10/31

    Collaborative partners

    • Lund University (lead)
    • Åke Wibergs stiftelse
    • Magnus Bergvalls Stiftelse
    • Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society