New Book - Web Search: Multidisciplinary Perspectives

We're pleased to announce the publication of Web Search:
Multidisciplinary Perspectives in the Information Science
and Knowledge Management series by Springer. Contents
include contributions approaching Web search engines from
philosophical, cultural, critical, legal, economic,
historical, political, and information scientific
perspectives. The table of contents is pasted below. More
information can be found
at these links: Springer: <http://www.
springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+re
trieval/book/978-3-540-75828-0
 Amazon: <http://www.amazon.com/
Web-Search-Multidisciplinary-Perspectives-Information/dp/354
0758283/
WorldCat: <http://www
.worldcat.org/oclc/174131546>

Our thanks to all the contributors!
Michael Zimmer
Amanda Spink
Editors

Web Search: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Part I: Introduction
o      Introduction (Amanda Spink and Michael Zimmer)

Part II: Social, Cultural, and Philosophical Perspectives
o      Through the Google Goggles: Sociopolitical Bias in
Search
Engine Design (Alejandro Diaz)
o      Reconsidering the Rhizome: A Textual Analysis of Web
Search
Engines as Gatekeepers of the Internet (Aaron Hess)
o      Exploring Gendered Notions: Gender, Job Hunting and
Web
Searches (Rosa Mikeal Martey)
o      Searching Ethics: The Role of Search Engines in the
Construction and Distribution of Knowledge (Lawrence
Hinman)
o      The Gaze of the Perfect Search Engine: Google as an
Infrastructure of Dataveillance (Michael Zimmer)

Part III: Political, Legal, and Economic Perspectives
o      Search Engine Liability for Copyright Infringement
(Brian
Fitzgerald, Damien O’Brien, and Anne Fitzgerald)
o      Search Engine Bias and the Demise of Search Engine
(Eric Goldman)
o      The Democratizing Effects of Search Engine Use: On
Chance
Exposures and Organizational Hubs (Azi Lev-On)
o      ‘Googling’ Terrorists: Are Northern Irish Terrorists
Visible on
Internet Search Engines? (Paul Reilly)
o      The History of the Internet Search Engine:
Navigational Media
and the Traffic (Elizabeth Van Couvering)

Part IV: Information Behavior Perspectives
o      Toward a Web Search Information Behavior Model 
(Shirlee Ann
Knight and Amanda Spink)
o      Web Searching for Health: Theoretical Foundations
and
Connections to Health Related Outcomes (Mohan Dutta and
Graham. Bodie)
o      Search Engines and Expertise about Global Issues:
Well-defined
Landscape or Undomesticated Wilderness? (Jenny Fry, Shefali
Virkar,
and Ralph Schroeder)
o      Conceptual Models for Search (David Hendry and
Efthimis
Efthimiadis)
o      Web Searching: A Quality Measurement Perspective
(Dirk
Lewandowski and Nadine Höchstötter)

Part V: Conclusion
o      Conclusions and Further Research (Amanda Spink and
Michael
Zimmer)
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Michael Zimmer, PhD
Microsoft Fellow, Information Society Project
Yale Law School
e: michael.zimmeryale.edu
w: http://michaelzimmer.org


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