Network Frontier: Reframing Exploration and Exploitation in Internet Rhetoric

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dc.contributor.advisorSen, Biswarup
dc.contributor.authorHess, Michael
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-18T22:52:01Z
dc.date.available2015-08-18T22:52:01Z
dc.date.issued2015-08-18
dc.description.abstractThe Internet is a product of the organizational structure of the Office of Science and Research Development, scientific corporate liberalism of Vannevar Bush's post-WWII policies, the process-oriented rhetoric in Science: The Endless Frontier, and Kennedy's commitment to the New Frontier. This thesis first examines the network infrastructure and then the Web in succession, following the common use of the metaphor, which moved from the rhetoric of science in the 1940s to a metaphor that financially and ideologically supported the Pentagon's Advanced Research Project Agency infrastructure in the 1960s and then finally created the value-laden features of the Internet, cyberspace, and its culture in the 1990s. This thesis connects the stages of development of the Internet to uses of the frontier in political rhetoric.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/19198
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US
dc.subjectAmerican frontieren_US
dc.subjectARPANETen_US
dc.subjectCorporate liberalismen_US
dc.subjectCyberspaceen_US
dc.subjectInterneten_US
dc.subjectManhattan Projecten_US
dc.titleNetwork Frontier: Reframing Exploration and Exploitation in Internet Rhetoric
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineSchool of Journalism and Communication
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.S.

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