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Google and the Culture of Search (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,361
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Google and the Culture of Search (Hardcover): Ken Hillis, Michael Petit, Kylie Jarrett

Google and the Culture of Search (Hardcover)

Ken Hillis, Michael Petit, Kylie Jarrett

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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, the authors 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.

Ken Hillis, Michael Petit, and Kylie Jarrett seek to understand the ascendancy of search and its naturalization by historicizing and contextualizing Google s dominance of the search industry, and suggest that the contemporary culture of search is inextricably bound up with a metaphysical longing to manage, order, and categorize all knowledge. Calling upon this nexus between political economy and metaphysics, "Google and the Culture of Search "explores what is at stake for an increasingly networked culture in which search technology is a site of knowledge and power.

General

Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: July 2012
First published: 2013
Authors: Ken Hillis • Michael Petit • Kylie Jarrett
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 0mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-88300-9
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies
Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Impact of science & technology on society
Books > Computing & IT > Social & legal aspects of computing > Impact of computing & IT on society
LSN: 0-415-88300-8
Barcode: 9780415883009

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