Invisible Search and Online Search Engines: The Ubiquity of Search in Everyday Life
- Length: 160 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 2019-03-18
- ISBN-10: 1138328618
- ISBN-13: 9781138328617
- Sales Rank: #1168843 (See Top 100 Books)
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.
Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Everyday life and social practices Between systems and users, search engines and search How is a search result relevant? The elephant in the room: Google Searching for content versus searching for documents Chapter conclusion: What is this book about and what is it not about? Chapter organisation References 2. Perspectives on search A prelude Search between information retrieval and information behaviour Seeking for serious information Web search studies Information practices and information seeking in everyday life Perspectives on the social shaping and the politics of search engines Chapter conclusion: Search as a social, cultural, and material/ technological phenomenon References 3. The materialities of search Infrastructures Critical infrastructure Infrastructure as a conceptual device Search as information infrastructure Rethinking visibility and breakdown Platformisation of the information infrastructure Data: Index, queries, and user data Chapter conclusion: Search and sociomaterial information practices References 4. Search in everyday life From specialised to mundane The ubiquity of search Not searching, searching differently, and avoiding search Searching for confirmation: Information feedback loops Searching for content versus search as practice: Re-inflating information Chapter conclusion: The ubiquity of search References 5. Search and media and information literacy Media and information literacy Information literacy research Media and information literacy in policy making How do we evaluate information? Understanding search versus understanding with search Changing demands: The limitations of media and information literacy Chapter conclusion: Locating trust and authority References 6. Researching search and search as research How to investigate search and searching Using search engines for investigations Chapter conclusion: Search engines as objects of and tools for research Note References 7. Conclusion Temporalities of search Central notions Final thoughts References Index
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