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<div>Hello Jeremy et al.</div>
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<div>I also think this recent thread on the metaphors of Internet
security is very interesting (my comments might come a bit late, since
I only receive the digest version of messages - sorry for any
potential dublication).</div>
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<div>What I am missing in the debate thus far is a consideration of
what Jeremy originally set out to look for: the metaphoric aspects of
this 'habituation'.</div>
<div>Usually the metaphors change exactly at that point when use
becomes more habitual and less strange or exotic. Thus what you
automatically switch on every morning is not an information
superhighway anymore.</div>
<div>But Jeremy was asking not about existing metaphors for Internet
security, but about the invention or introduction of some new ones.
Thus the process is reversed: think about something you are already
used to doing and then add the 'appropriate' metaphor. Thus we tend to
be careful and relate it to things we know rather well (someone's car
- Jeremy's toaster (which however does not appear (!) as a daily
threat to most of us, I would think, while Internet security is an
issue we do think about)).</div>
<div>So what metaphors are already out there? There must be some, at
least in the advertisement world. Can't think of any at the moment.
Probably not easy that combines public and private aspects.</div>
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<div>Another point was to agree with Pille on the domestication
concept as a rather useful one (where the term ritual can also be
added to habitual -- adds yet another quality of use, esp. in terms of
media technologies). One problem here is though - as was discussed at
the recent EMTEL conference in London - that the research into
domestication thus far deals more with the changes use practices in
the sense of everyday life than with the different versions of
content. The concept itself combines both aspects of use, but research
has often concentrated on the daily life aspects (where, who, how
often, when,...). Thus combining the two is the challenge, it
seems.</div>
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<div>Maren</div>
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<div>[Can I also use this to say that it is a pity that a panel, which
had metaphors as its main focus, has unfortunately been rejected by
the AoIR-conference organisers. This is not to say that I do not
respect the procedures and all the work that has gone into them (a
lot!). It's just to say that maybe we could get this together for the
conference after this coming one, since it seems that it could have
been a good session :-)]</div>
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