TY - JOUR AU - Robinson, Glendal PY - 2002/03/04 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - A Mythic Perspective of Commodification on the World Wide Web JF - First Monday JA - FM VL - 7 IS - 3 SE - DO - 10.5210/fm.v7i3.939 UR - https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/939 SP - AB - 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). ER -