@article{Robinson_2002, title={A Mythic Perspective of Commodification on the World Wide Web}, volume={7}, url={https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/939}, DOI={10.5210/fm.v7i3.939}, abstractNote={The Internet, initially established by scholars and scientists to freely share information, is being transformed into a source of profit for entrepreneurs and corporations. Commodification, the process of developing things and concepts and even people into saleable products, calls for a representation of the foundational mythology on the Web and its manifestation as symbolic language. This study posits a textual analysis of Wired for the purpose of measuring this transformation on a mythic continuum (connectivity-location-being).}, number={3}, journal={First Monday}, author={Robinson, Glendal}, year={2002}, month={Mar.} }