Danger! Metaphors at Work in Economics, Geophysiology, and the Internet

By Sally Wyatt. 2004

127 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Literature and Literary Theory, Philosophy

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Tarleton Gillespie
2. Jean Burgess
3. Cornelius Puschmann
4. R. Peckham

In Literature and Literary Theory

1. Tarleton Gillespie
2. Jean Burgess
3. Cornelius Puschmann
4. R. Peckham

In Philosophy

1. Tarleton Gillespie
2. Jean Burgess
3. Cornelius Puschmann
4. R. Peckham
5. Michele A. Willson

Citations in the corpus

• The politics of ‘platforms’ (2010, background): “They do so strategically, to position themselves both to pursue current and future profits, to strike a regulatory sweet spot between legislative protections that benefit them and obligations that do not, and to lay out a cultural imaginary within which their service makes sense (Wyatt, 2004).”
• Metaphors of Big Data (2014, background): “A typical recurring usage is to soften its technical and abstract nature and the resulting sense of “instability and uncertainty” that the early Internet evoked (Wyatt, 2004, p. 244).”
• Economies of contagion: financial crisis and pandemic (2013, background): “Conclusion: contagion, shock and risk It might be argued that analogies and metaphors ‘not only help to make science and technology comprehensible to nonspecialists, they can also guide scientific work’ (Wyatt, 2004, p. 244).”