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oapen-20.500.12657-512562023-07-05T11:27:19Z Invisible Search and Online Search Engines Haider, Jutta Sundin, Olof Library and information services;IT, Internet and electronic resources in libraries bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GL Library & information sciences::GLM Library & information services bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GL Library & information sciences::GLF IT, Internet & electronic resources in libraries 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. 2021-11-03T15:13:05Z 2021-11-03T15:13:05Z 2019 book 9781138328617 9780429448546 9781138328600 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51256 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9780429828027.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9780429448546 10.4324/9780429448546 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb Lunds Universitet 9781138328617 9780429448546 9781138328600 Routledge 160 open access
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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.
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