TY  - BOOK
AU  - Halavais,Alexander M.Campbell
TI  - Search engine society
T2  - Digital media and society series
SN  - 9780745642147
AV  - HM851 .H343 2009
U1  - 303.4833 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cambridge, Malden, MA
PB  - Polity
KW  - Web search engines
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Information technology
KW  - Moteurs de recherche sur Internet
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - Technologie de l'information
KW  - internet
KW  - agrovoc
KW  - information retrieval
KW  - social values
KW  - Informationstechnik
KW  - gnd
KW  - Suchmaschine
KW  - Internet
KW  - Gesellschaft
KW  - Soziologie
KW  - idszbz
KW  - Suchmaschine (WWW)
KW  - Informationsgesellschaft
KW  - swd
KW  - Kultursoziologie
KW  - Sökmotorer
KW  - sao
KW  - Söktjänster (internet)
KW  - Informationssamhället
KW  - Information society
KW  - Internet searching
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-225) and index; Introduction -- 1: Engines -- 2: Searching -- 3: Attention -- 4: Knowledge and democracy -- 5: Censorship -- 6: Privacy -- 7: Social search -- 8: Future finding -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - From the Publisher: Search engines have become a key part of our everyday lives. Yet while much has been written about how to use search engines and how they can be improved, there has been comparatively little exploration of what their social and cultural effects might be. Like all technologies, search engines exist within a larger political, cultural, and economic environment. This volume aims to redress this balance and to address crucial questions such as: How have search engines changed the way we organize our thoughts about the world, and how we work? To what extent does political control of search engines, or the political influence of search engines, affect how they are used, misused, and regulated? Does the search engine help share our identities and interactions with others, and what implications does this have for privacy? Informed members of the information society must understand the social contexts in which search engines have been developed, what that development says about us as a society, and the role of the search engine in the global information environment. This book provides the perfect starting point
ER  -