Document Type

Article

Publication Date

8-8-2002

Abstract

This article offers feudal society as a metaphor for the emerging social organization of the Internet. It does so to illustrate how metaphors shape thinking about the Internet and to challenge the sometimes misleading comparison of the Internet to the Western frontier.

Publication Citation

"Western Frontier or Feudal Society? Metaphors and Perceptions of Cyberspace." Berkeley Technology Law Journal 17 (December 2002): 1207-1263.