Search engine society
by Halavais, Alexander M. Campbell
From the Publisher: Search engines have become a key part of our everyday lives. Yet while much has been written about how to use search engines and how they can be improved, there has been comparatively little exploration of what their social and cultural effects might be. Like all technologies, search engines exist within a larger political, cultural, and economic environment. This volume aims to redress this balance and to address crucial questions such as: How have search engines changed th…
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- Full title :Search engine society / Alexander Halavais.
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From the Publisher: Search engines have become a key part of our everyday lives. Yet while much has been written about how to use search engines and how they can be improved, there has been comparatively little exploration of what their social and cultural effects might be. Like all technologies, search engines exist within a larger political, cultural, and economic environment. This volume aims to redress this balance and to address crucial questions such as: How have search engines changed the way we organize our thoughts about the world, and how we work? To what extent does political control of search engines, or the political influence of search engines, affect how they are used, misused, and regulated? Does the search engine help share our identities and interactions with others, and what implications does this have for privacy? Informed members of the information society must understand the social contexts in which search engines have been developed, what that development says about us as a society, and the role of the search engine in the global information environment. This book provides the perfect starting point.
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- Publication Date:2009.
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- Publisher(s):Polity
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2009.
The Physical Object
- Description:v, 232 pages : : illustrations ; : 22 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780745642147, 0745642144, 9780745642154, 0745642152
- oclc:ocn236321882
- LC Classification:HM851
- Dewey Decimal:303.4833
Table of Contents
Introduction -- 1: Engines -- 2: Searching -- 3: Attention -- 4: Knowledge and democracy -- 5: Censorship -- 6: Privacy -- 7: Social search -- 8: Future finding -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
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