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Invisible Search and Online Search Engines - The Ubiquity of Search in Everyday Life (Paperback)
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Invisible Search and Online Search Engines - The Ubiquity of Search in Everyday Life (Paperback)
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Invisible Search and Online Search Engines considers the use of
search engines in contemporary everyday life and the challenges
this poses for media and information literacy. Looking for mediated
information is mostly done online and arbitrated by the various
tools and devices that people carry with them on a daily basis.
Because of this, search engines have a significant impact on the
structure of our lives, and personal and public memories. Haider
and Sundin consider what this means for society, whilst also
uniting research on information retrieval with research on how
people actually look for and encounter information. Search engines
are now one of society's key infrastructures for knowing and
becoming informed. While their use is dispersed across myriads of
social practices, where they have acquired close to naturalised
positions, they are commercially and technically centralised.
Arguing that search, searching, and search engines have become so
widely used that we have stopped noticing them, Haider and Sundin
consider what it means to be so reliant on this all-encompassing
and increasingly invisible information infrastructure. Invisible
Search and Online Search Engines is the first book to approach
search and search engines from a perspective that combines insights
from the technical expertise of information science research with a
social science and humanities approach. As such, the book should be
essential reading for academics, researchers, and students working
on and studying information science, library and information
science (LIS), media studies, journalism, digital cultures, and
educational sciences.
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