Web Search
Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Editors: Spink, Amanda, Zimmer, Michael (Eds.)
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Web search engines have emerged as one of the dominant technologies of modern life, leaving few aspects of our everyday activities untouched. Search engines are not just indispensable tools for finding and accessing information online, but have become a defining component of the human condition and can be conceptualized as a complex behavior embedded within an individual's everyday social, cultural, political, and information-seeking activities.
This book investigates Web search from the non-technical perspective, bringing together chapters that represent a range of multidisciplinary theories, models, and ideas about Web searching. They examine the various roles and impacts of Web searching on the social, cultural, political, legal, and informational spheres of our lives, such as the impact on individuals, social groups, modern and postmodern ways of knowing, and public and private life. By critically examining the issues, theories, and formations arising from, and surrounding, Web searching, Web Search: Multidisciplinary Perspectives represents an important contribution to the emerging multidisciplinary body of research on Web search engines.
The new ideas and novel perspectives on Web searching gathered in this volume will prove valuable for research and curricula in the fields of social sciences, communication studies, cultural studies, information science, and related disciplines.
- Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 3-8
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Through the Google Goggles: Sociopolitical Bias in Search Engine Design
Pages 11-34
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Reconsidering the Rhizome: A Textual Analysis of Web Search Engines as Gatekeepers of the Internet
Pages 35-50
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Exploring Gendered Notions: Gender, Job Hunting and Web Searches
Pages 51-65
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Searching Ethics: The Role of Search Engines in the Construction and Distribution of Knowledge
Pages 67-76
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Web Search
- Book Subtitle
- Multidisciplinary Perspectives
- Editors
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- Amanda Spink
- Michael Zimmer
- Series Title
- Information Science and Knowledge Management
- Series Volume
- 14
- Copyright
- 2008
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-540-75829-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-540-75829-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-540-75828-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-09499-6
- Series ISSN
- 1568-1300
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 352
- Number of Illustrations
- 41 b/w illustrations
- Topics
