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    "pk": 2953,
    "title": "How the West was One? The American Frontier and the Rise of a Global Internet Imaginary",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "This paper connects the Turner thesis and the construction of a frontier imaginary to contemporary American practices as evidenced by the exportation of advanced Western science and technologies throughout the globe, using the Internet as a representative example. The dissemination of the Internet to non-Western cultures is a major global strategy at present, and the paper finds that this is occurring via the conceptual strokes of the “American West.” The paper argues that visions of a democratic Internet involve the metaphoric evocation of Turner’s frontier democracy and imperial progressivism. However, the “Western” directionality of imperialism is dialectically related to “whole-earth” discourse through a pervading global localism.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": null,
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "frontier"
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        {
            "word": "internet"
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            "word": "imperialism"
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6gv8g5z7",
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        {
            "first_name": "Richard",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Kahn",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles",
            "department": "None"
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    "date_submitted": "2005-06-20T12:30:00+05:30",
    "date_accepted": "2005-06-20T12:30:00+05:30",
    "date_published": "2005-06-21T12:30:00+05:30",
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