Metaphors of big data

International Journal of Communication

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1690-1709

  Puschmann, Cornelius ^a   Burgess, Jean ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Big data; Conceptual metaphor; Data; Discourse analysis; Science; Semantics; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011620947     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19328036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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