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1. Telegraph metaphor
Telegraph: roads, pipes, wires, channels
• empty infrastructure for possible traffic
• homogeneous nodes & connection paths/lines
1. Telegraph metaphor
• external control by architecture, rules & protocol
• example: electronic highway
2. Nerve metaphor
Nervous system (ecosystem, cells, DNA, brains, life)
• organic emergence of structure, elements & traffic
• heterogeneous nodes & connections/relations
2. Nerve metaphor
• internal control by adaptation, mutual shaping, feedback & (self)organization
• example: cyberspace
3. Diagram metaphor
• abstract representation of relations/’links’
• maps of nodes & links: visual patterns
3. Diagram metaphor
• examples: data traffic – Twitter centers – social ties - cell metabolism - movie actors - scientific citations – hyperlinks
• control: internal, external?