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Record Nr.

UNINA9910507206903321

Autore

Haider Jutta

Titolo

Invisible search and online search engines : the ubiquity of search in everyday life / / Jutta Haider and Olof Sundin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Routledge

Abingdon, 2019

ISBN

0-429-82800-4

0-429-82801-2

0-429-44854-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

VII, 315 s

Classificazione

LAN025000LAN025060

Disciplina

025.0425

Soggetti

Internet searching

Search engines

Nonfiction

Language Arts

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Half Title -- Endorsements -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Perspectives on search -- 3. The materialities of search -- 4. Search in everyday life -- 5. Search and media and information literacy -- 6. Researching search and search as research -- 7. Conclusion -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.