{"id":5756,"date":"2009-06-04T01:19:11","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:09:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-11T13:09:29","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:09:29","slug":"taxonomy-of-internet-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/taxonomy-of-internet-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxonomy of Internet Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nA fews ago I posted my growing collection of hand-drawn maps of the internet<\/a>. (If you’d like to contribute one, there’s a button to download the blank PDF<\/a>.) The intent behind this effort is to capture the unconscious layout that ordinary people have in mind when they navigate the internet. In posting the images on Flickr I suggested that they would make great fodder for a creative scholar. Much to my surprise two days later, a professor in Argentina wrote the first paper with a first attempt to classify this initial set of maps.\n<\/p>\n

\nMara Vanina Oses<\/a> is a psychologist and professor of media at the Psychology School at the University of Buenos Aires. You can view her report (PDF) here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\nA few samples of her results:\n<\/p>\n

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\n…Even when a lot of people have the idea that Internet is the network of networks a lot more don’t have yet this idea; they see the Internet as a connection with a center (star) as a way to get to the rest of the items (mesh) or as a simple line of items.<\/span>
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\nSo far we have that 2 out of 5 people consider themselves as the center of Internet and 1 out of 5 can’t place him\/herself there (either because he\/she could be anywhere or because doesn’t found a place). <\/span>
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