{"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"},{"word":"internet"},{"word":"imperialism"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6gv8g5z7","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Richard","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kahn","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Los Angeles","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2005-06-20T00:00:00-07:00","date_accepted":"2005-06-20T00:00:00-07:00","date_published":"2005-06-21T00:00:00-07:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/2953/galley/1753/download/"}]}