"America is like Metamucil": Fostering critical and creative thinking about metaphor in political blogs

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages 1437-1446

  Baumer, Eric P S ^a   Sinclair, Jordan ^a   Tomlinson, Bill ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

blog readers; computational metaphor identification; creativity; critical thinking; metaphor; political blogs

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC TECHNIQUE; BLOG READERS; CREATIVE THINKING; CRITICAL THINKING; NEW TOOLS; STRUCTURAL REASONING; SYSTEM FEATURES;

BLOGS; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

INTERNET;

EID: 77953967818     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1753326.1753541     Document Type: Conference Paper

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