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Western Frontier or Feudal Society?: Metaphors and Perceptions of Cyberspace

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Alfred Yen (Boston College Law School)
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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.

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Paper provided by Boston College Law School in its series Boston College Law School Faculty Papers with number bc_bclsfp-1002.

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Keywords: cyberspace; Internet governance; feudal; intellectual property; frontier;

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