Focus on metaphors: The case of "Frankenfood" on the web

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Hellsten, Iina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ELECTRONIC MAIL; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; ONLINE SEARCHING; WEBSITES;

FRANKENFOOD; INTERNET RESEARCH; METAPHORS; STATIC SNAPSHOTS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 3042646246     PISSN: 10836101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2003.tb00218.x     Document Type: Article

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