LEADER 05136oam 2200829Ma 450 001 9910777407903321 005 20190503073342.0 010 $a9786612096716 010 $a1-282-09671-0 010 $a0-262-25687-8 010 $a1-4237-9658-6 035 $a(CKB)1000000000451967 035 $a(EBL)3338487 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000179061 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11170657 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000179061 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10230172 035 $a(PQKB)10202536 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000518485 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12199606 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000518485 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10494714 035 $a(PQKB)11363217 035 $a(CaBNVSL)mat06267327 035 $a(IDAMS)0b000064818b42f9 035 $a(IEEE)6267327 035 $a(OCoLC)191936509$z(OCoLC)71000539$z(OCoLC)488561936$z(OCoLC)614968141$z(OCoLC)648223155$z(OCoLC)722563982$z(OCoLC)743198118$z(OCoLC)815776325$z(OCoLC)888764090$z(OCoLC)961575276$z(OCoLC)962612194$z(OCoLC)966199690$z(OCoLC)988490097$z(OCoLC)991958280$z(OCoLC)1037502940$z(OCoLC)1037936215$z(OCoLC)1038687261$z(OCoLC)1055385287$z(OCoLC)1064126109$z(OCoLC)1081240551$z(OCoLC)1083562833 035 $a(OCoLC-P)191936509 035 $a(MaCbMITP)3770 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3338487 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10173539 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL209671 035 $a(OCoLC)191936509 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3338487 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000451967 100 $a20040507d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aInformation politics on the Web /$fRichard Rogers 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cMIT Press$dİ2004 215 $a1 online resource (213 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-262-68164-1 311 $a0-262-18242-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [189]-196) and index. 327 $a""Preface""; ""1 - Introduction: Behind the Practice of Information Politics""; ""2 - The Viagra Files: The Web as Collision Space between Official and Unofficial Accounts of Reality""; ""3 - Mapping De-territorialization: Classic Politics in Tatters""; ""4 - After Genoa: Remedying Informational Politics and Augmenting Reality with the Web""; ""5 - Election Issue Tracker: Monitoring the Politics of Attention""; ""6 - The Practice of Information Politics on the Web""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"" 330 $aDoes the information on the Web offer many alternative accounts of reality, or does it subtly align with an official version? In Information Politics on the Web, Richard Rogers identifies the cultures, techniques, and devices that rank and recommend information on the Web, analyzing not only the political content of Web sites but the politics built into the Web's infrastructure. Addressing the larger question of what the Web is for, Rogers argues that the Web is still the best arena for unsettling the official and challenging the familiar.Rogers describes the politics at work on the Web as either back-end--the politics of search engine technology--or front-end--the diversity, inclusivity, and relative prominence of sites publicly accessible on the Web. To analyze this, he developed four "political instruments," or software tools that gather information about the Web by capturing dynamic linking practices, attention cycles for issues, and changing political party commitments. On the basis of his findings on how information politics works, Rogers argues that the Web should be, and can be, a "collision space" for official and unofficial accounts of reality. (One chapter, "The Viagra Files" offers an entertaining analysis of official and unofficial claims for the health benefits of Viagra.) The distinctiveness of the Web as a medium lies partly in the peculiar practices that grant different statuses to information sources. The tools developed by Rogers capture these practices and contribute to the development of a new information politics that takes into account and draws from the competition between the official, the non-governmental, and the underground. 606 $aInformation technology$xSocial aspects 606 $aInformation technology$xPolitical aspects 606 $aWeb search engines$xPolitical aspects 606 $aWeb portals$xPolitical aspects 606 $aCivil society 606 $aKnowledge, Sociology of 610 $aINFORMATION SCIENCE/Internet Studies 610 $aINFORMATION SCIENCE/Technology & Policy 615 0$aInformation technology$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aInformation technology$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aWeb search engines$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aWeb portals$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aCivil society. 615 0$aKnowledge, Sociology of. 676 $a303.48/33 700 $aRogers$b Richard$f1965-$0772742 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777407903321 996 $aInformation politics on the Web$93763826 997 $aUNINA