Journalists and experts contribute to the creation of frames (frame-building) of innovations. However, little is known about the specific contribution of these different societal actors to the frame-building of emerging information technologies. This article focuses on a specific emerging information technology – cyberinfrastructure for big data. In particular, we investigated the role of metaphors in the frame-building of cyberinfrastructure during its early development, and contrast the metaphorical framing of cyberinfrastructure by journalists in a corpus of US news texts (Study 1) with the metaphorical framing of experts in a corpus of interviews (Study 2). Results show considerable differences between the frames by journalists and experts in the frame-building process. Journalists, to a great extent, employ their own frames in conceptualizing cyberinfrastructure rather than drawing on the frames used by experts. Future research should investigate the impact of these different metaphorical frames on audience members.

记者和专家为创新框架的创建（框架构建）做出了贡献。然而，人们对这些不同的社会行为者对新兴信息技术框架的具体贡献知之甚少。本文重点介绍一种特定的新兴信息技术——大数据的网络基础设施。特别是，我们在网络基础设施的早期发展过程中研究了隐喻在网络基础设施框架构建中的作用，并将记者在美国新闻文本语料库（研究 1）中对网络基础设施的隐喻框架与语料库中专家的隐喻框架进行对比访谈（研究 2）。结果表明，记者和专家在框架构建过程中的框架之间存在很大差异。记者在很大程度上，使用他们自己的框架来概念化网络基础设施，而不是借鉴专家使用的框架。未来的研究应该调查这些不同的隐喻框架对观众的影响。