<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class="">Invisible Search and Online Search Engines--The Ubiquity of Search in Everyday Life (Routledge)</p><div class="">By Jutta Haider and Olof Sundin</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Invisible-Search-and-Online-Search-Engines-The-Ubiquity-of-Search-in-Everyday/Haider-Sundin/p/book/9781138328617" class="">https://www.routledge.com/Invisible-Search-and-Online-Search-Engines-The-Ubiquity-of-Search-in-Everyday/Haider-Sundin/p/book/9781138328617</a></div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class=""><i class="">Invisible Search and Online Search Engines</i> 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.</div><p class="">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. </p>
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</i><p class=""><i class="">Invisible Search and Online Search Engines</i> 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.</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>