[Air-L] recently out: Invisible Search and Online Search Engines (Routledge, 2019)

[Jutta Haider]

Book announcement:

Jutta Haider & Olof Sundin (2019),  Invisible Search and Online Search
Engines. The Ubiquity of Search in Everyday Life", London & NY: Routledge

"This is a marvelously written, beautifully researched volume which
explores the centrality of search to our lives. It ranges fluently across a
number of fields to produce fresh insights into topics such as the creation
of new temporalities and meaning-making in information infrastructures."
Geoffrey Bowker, University of California Irvine, USA

"This is an excellent book that provides a unique perspective on the field
of web search studies. Jutta Haider and Olof Sundin place search where it
is best placed: in everyday life. … This book, which is well-grounded in
the literature from different fields, provides an excellent basis for
understanding search as an integral part of everyday life." Dirk
Lewandowski, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany

"… it represents an important new voice in this extremely important field.
" Birger Hjørland, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Description: 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.

Contents:  Introduction \ Perspectives on search \ The materialities of
search \ Search in everyday Life  \ Search and media and information
literacy \ Researching search and search as research \ Conclusion

Book information can be found here:
https://www.routledge.com/Invisible-Search-and-Online-Search-Engines-The-Ubiquity-of-Search-in-Everyday/Haider-Sundin/p/book/9781138328617


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