Ken Hillis, Michael Petit, Kylie Jarrett

Google and the Culture of Search (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

What did you do before Google? The rise of Google as the dominant Internet search provider reflects a generationally-inflected notion that everything that matters is now on the Web, and should, in the moral sense of the verb, be accessible through search. In this theoretically nuanced study of search technology's broader implications for knowledge production and social relations, Ken Hillis, Michael Petit, and Kylie Jarrett shed light on a culture of search in which our increasing reliance on search engines influences not only the way we navigate, classify, and evaluate Web content, but also how we think about ourselves and the world around us, online and off.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136933066
• Artikelnr.: 38279917

Autorenporträt

Ken Hillis is Professor of Media and Technology Studies in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is author of Digital Sensations: Space, Identity and Embodiment in Virtual Reality (1999) and Online a Lot of the Time: Ritual, Fetish, Sign (2009). He is co-editor of Everyday eBay: Culture, Collecting and Desire (2006).

Michael Petit is Director of Media Studies and the Joint Program in New Media at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He is author of Peacekeepers at War (1986) and co-editor of Everyday eBay: Culture, Collecting and Desire (2006).

Kylie Jarrett is Lecturer in Multimedia at the National University of Ireland Maynooth where she is the program coordinator of the BA Digital Media.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Growing Up Google 2. Metaphysics of Search 3. The Searcher and the Self 4. Search Critic 5. Conclusion: "I Search, Therefore I Am"

Rezensionen

"Some say Google makes us stupid. Others say it should make us worry. Google and the Culture of Search makes us both smarter and more worried about Google's monopoly powers. As Hillis et al. show, Google's lineage runs less to General Motors than to a long line of mathematicians and metaphysicians who wanted to organize the world's information-never before has the strange beast of Google been so clearly put into its proper family tree. Read this book!" -John Durham Peters, University of Iowa

"If you wonder why Google gets billions of search queries every day, and (like me) don't think 'because it's free' or 'because it's there' are sufficient answers, you should read this book. It's a treasure trove of insights into the culture of search." -Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Oxford Internet Institute