Ebook: Web Search: Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Web search engines have emerged as one of the dominant technologies of modern life, leaving few aspects of our everyday activities untouched. Search engines are not just indispensable tools for finding and accessing information online, but have become a defining component of the human condition and can be conceptualized as a complex behavior embedded within an individual's everyday social, cultural, political, and information-seeking activities.

This book investigates Web search from the non-technical perspective, bringing together chapters that represent a range of multidisciplinary theories, models, and ideas about Web searching. They examine the various roles and impacts of Web searching on the social, cultural, political, legal, and informational spheres of our lives, such as the impact on individuals, social groups, modern and postmodern ways of knowing, and public and private life. By critically examining the issues, theories, and formations arising from, and surrounding, Web searching, Web Search: Multidisciplinary Perspectives represents an important contribution to the emerging multidisciplinary body of research on Web search engines.

The new ideas and novel perspectives on Web searching gathered in this volume will prove valuable for research and curricula in the fields of social sciences, communication studies, cultural studies, information science, and related disciplines.

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Web search engines have emerged as one of the dominant technologies of modern life, leaving few aspects of our everyday activities untouched. Search engines are not just indispensable tools for finding and accessing information online, but have become a defining component of the human condition and can be conceptualized as a complex behavior embedded within an individual's everyday social, cultural, political, and information-seeking activities.

This book investigates Web search from the non-technical perspective, bringing together chapters that represent a range of multidisciplinary theories, models, and ideas about Web searching. They examine the various roles and impacts of Web searching on the social, cultural, political, legal, and informational spheres of our lives, such as the impact on individuals, social groups, modern and postmodern ways of knowing, and public and private life. By critically examining the issues, theories, and formations arising from, and surrounding, Web searching, Web Search: Multidisciplinary Perspectives represents an important contribution to the emerging multidisciplinary body of research on Web search engines.

The new ideas and novel perspectives on Web searching gathered in this volume will prove valuable for research and curricula in the fields of social sciences, communication studies, cultural studies, information science, and related disciplines.

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Web search engines have emerged as one of the dominant technologies of modern life, leaving few aspects of our everyday activities untouched. Search engines are not just indispensable tools for finding and accessing information online, but have become a defining component of the human condition and can be conceptualized as a complex behavior embedded within an individual's everyday social, cultural, political, and information-seeking activities.

This book investigates Web search from the non-technical perspective, bringing together chapters that represent a range of multidisciplinary theories, models, and ideas about Web searching. They examine the various roles and impacts of Web searching on the social, cultural, political, legal, and informational spheres of our lives, such as the impact on individuals, social groups, modern and postmodern ways of knowing, and public and private life. By critically examining the issues, theories, and formations arising from, and surrounding, Web searching, Web Search: Multidisciplinary Perspectives represents an important contribution to the emerging multidisciplinary body of research on Web search engines.

The new ideas and novel perspectives on Web searching gathered in this volume will prove valuable for research and curricula in the fields of social sciences, communication studies, cultural studies, information science, and related disciplines.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 3-8
Through the Google Goggles: Sociopolitical Bias in Search Engine Design....Pages 11-34
Reconsidering the Rhizome: A Textual Analysis of Web Search Engines as Gatekeepers of the Internet....Pages 35-50
Exploring Gendered Notions: Gender, Job Hunting and Web Searches....Pages 51-65
Searching Ethics: The Role of Search Engines in the Construction and Distribution of Knowledge....Pages 67-76
The Gaze of the Perfect Search Engine: Google as an Infrastructure of Dataveillance....Pages 77-99
Search Engine Liability for Copyright Infringement....Pages 103-120
Search Engine Bias and the Demise of Search Engine Utopianism....Pages 121-133
The Democratizing Effects of Search Engine Use: On Chance Exposures and Organizational Hubs....Pages 135-149
‘Googling’ Terrorists: Are Northern Irish Terrorists Visible on Internet Search Engines?....Pages 151-175
The History of the Internet Search Engine: Navigational Media and the Traffic Commodity....Pages 177-206
Toward a Web Search Information Behavior Model....Pages 209-234
Web Searching for Health: Theoretical Foundations and Connections to Health Related Outcomes....Pages 235-254
Search Engines and Expertise about Global Issues: Well-defined Landscape or Undomesticated Wilderness?....Pages 255-275
Conceptual Models for Search Engines....Pages 277-307
Web Searching: A Quality Measurement Perspective....Pages 309-340
Conclusions and Further Research....Pages 343-347
Back Matter....Pages 349-351

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Web search engines have emerged as one of the dominant technologies of modern life, leaving few aspects of our everyday activities untouched. Search engines are not just indispensable tools for finding and accessing information online, but have become a defining component of the human condition and can be conceptualized as a complex behavior embedded within an individual's everyday social, cultural, political, and information-seeking activities.

This book investigates Web search from the non-technical perspective, bringing together chapters that represent a range of multidisciplinary theories, models, and ideas about Web searching. They examine the various roles and impacts of Web searching on the social, cultural, political, legal, and informational spheres of our lives, such as the impact on individuals, social groups, modern and postmodern ways of knowing, and public and private life. By critically examining the issues, theories, and formations arising from, and surrounding, Web searching, Web Search: Multidisciplinary Perspectives represents an important contribution to the emerging multidisciplinary body of research on Web search engines.

The new ideas and novel perspectives on Web searching gathered in this volume will prove valuable for research and curricula in the fields of social sciences, communication studies, cultural studies, information science, and related disciplines.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 3-8
Through the Google Goggles: Sociopolitical Bias in Search Engine Design....Pages 11-34
Reconsidering the Rhizome: A Textual Analysis of Web Search Engines as Gatekeepers of the Internet....Pages 35-50
Exploring Gendered Notions: Gender, Job Hunting and Web Searches....Pages 51-65
Searching Ethics: The Role of Search Engines in the Construction and Distribution of Knowledge....Pages 67-76
The Gaze of the Perfect Search Engine: Google as an Infrastructure of Dataveillance....Pages 77-99
Search Engine Liability for Copyright Infringement....Pages 103-120
Search Engine Bias and the Demise of Search Engine Utopianism....Pages 121-133
The Democratizing Effects of Search Engine Use: On Chance Exposures and Organizational Hubs....Pages 135-149
‘Googling’ Terrorists: Are Northern Irish Terrorists Visible on Internet Search Engines?....Pages 151-175
The History of the Internet Search Engine: Navigational Media and the Traffic Commodity....Pages 177-206
Toward a Web Search Information Behavior Model....Pages 209-234
Web Searching for Health: Theoretical Foundations and Connections to Health Related Outcomes....Pages 235-254
Search Engines and Expertise about Global Issues: Well-defined Landscape or Undomesticated Wilderness?....Pages 255-275
Conceptual Models for Search Engines....Pages 277-307
Web Searching: A Quality Measurement Perspective....Pages 309-340
Conclusions and Further Research....Pages 343-347
Back Matter....Pages 349-351
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