Google and the Culture of Search

by Kylie Jarrett, Ken Hillis, Michael Petit

Book Overview

What did you do before Google?

The rise of Google as the dominant Internet search provider reflects a generationally-inflected notion that everything that matters is now on the Web, and should, in the moral sense of the verb, be accessible through search. In this theoretically nuanced study of search technology's broader implications for knowledge production and social relations, the authors shed light on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415883016
• ISBN13: 9780415883016
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"