Google And The Myth Of Universal Knowledge

Author : Ian Wilson
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459627474
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge written by Ian Wilson and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-08-22 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent announcement that Google would digitize the holdings of several major libraries sent shock waves through the book industry and academe. Google presented this digital repository as a first step towards a long - dreamed - of universal library, but skeptics were quick to raise a number of concerns about the potential for copyright infrin...

Author : Ian Wilson
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459627474
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge written by Ian Wilson and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-08-22 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent announcement that Google would digitize the holdings of several major libraries sent shock waves through the book industry and academe. Google presented this digital repository as a first step towards a long - dreamed - of universal library, but skeptics were quick to raise a number of concerns about the potential for copyright infrin...

Author : Richard J. Cox
Publisher : Library Juice Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1936117452
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Demise of the Library School written by Richard J. Cox and published by Library Juice Press, LLC. This book was released on 2010 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Demise of the Library School, Richard J. Cox places the present and future of professional education for librarianship in the debate on the modern corporate university. The book is a series of meditations on critical themes relating to the education of librarians, archivists, and other information professionals, playing off of other commentators analyzing the nature of higher education and its problems and promises.

Author : Jennifer Rowley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351913271
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organizing Knowledge written by Jennifer Rowley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth edition of this standard student text, Organizing Knowledge, incorporates extensive revisions reflecting the increasing shift towards a networked and digital information environment, and its impact on documents, information, knowledge, users and managers. Offering a broad-based overview of the approaches and tools used in the structuring and dissemination of knowledge, it is written in an accessible style and well illustrated with figures and examples. The book has been structured into three parts and twelve chapters and has been thoroughly updated throughout. Part I discusses the nature, structuring and description of knowledge. Part II, with its five chapters, lies at the core of the book focusing as it does on access to information. Part III explores different types of knowledge organization systems and considers some of the management issues associated with such systems. Each chapter includes learning objectives, a chapter summary and a list of references for further reading. This is a key introductory text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of information management.

Author : Joshua Ehrlich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009367951
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge written by Joshua Ehrlich and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ehrlich reveals how the East India Company used its commitment to knowledge to justify its commercial and political power.

Author : Sas Mays
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135013845
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Libraries, Literatures, and Archives written by Sas Mays and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not only does the library have a long and complex history and politics, but it has an ambivalent presence in Western culture – both a site of positive knowledge and a site of error, confusion, and loss. Nevertheless, in literary studies and in the humanities, including book history, the figure of the library remains in many senses under-researched. This collection brings together established and up-and-coming researchers from a number of practices – literary and cultural studies, gender studies, book history, philosophy, visual culture, and contemporary art –with an effective historical sweep ranging from the time of Sumer to the present day. In the context of the rise of archive studies, this book attends specifically and meta-critically to the figure of the library as a particular archival form, considering the traits that constitute (or fail to constitute) the library as institution or idea, and questions its relations to other accumulative modes, such as the archive in its traditional sense, the museum, or the filmic or digital archive. Across their diversity, and in addition to their international standard of research and writing, each chapter is unified by commitment to analyzing the complex cultural politics of the library form.

Author : Micky Lee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429516088
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alphabet written by Micky Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Google is synonymous with searching, but in this innovative new research volume, Micky Lee explores how the Alphabet Corporation, now the parent company of Google, is more than just a search engine. Using a political economic approach, Lee draws on the concept of networks to investigate the growth of this key media player. The establishment of the parent company, Alphabet, shows the company is expanding to other industries from equity investment to self-driving cars. This book first examines this history of expansion, before delving into the economic, political, and cultural profiles of the corporation. Lee ultimately finds that what makes Google powerful is not one genius idea, but rather networks of people, places, and capital. Alphabet: The Becoming of Google is a compelling dive into the sometimes inscrutable world of Google, ideal for students, scholars, and researchers interested in the fields of digital media studies, the politics and economies of online media, and the history of the internet.

Author : Andrew Iliadis
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509542590
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Semantic Media written by Andrew Iliadis and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Media technologies now provide facts, answers, and “knowledge” to people – search engines, apps, and virtual assistants increasingly articulate responses rather than direct people to other sources. Semantic Media is about this emerging era of meaning-making technologies. Companies like Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft organize information in new media products that seek to “intuitively” grasp what people want to know and the actions they want to take. This book describes some of the insidious technological practices through which organizations achieve this while addressing the changing contexts of internet searches, and examines the social and political consequences of what happens when large companies become primary sources of information. Written in an accessible style, Semantic Media will be of interest to students and scholars in media, science and technology, communication, and internet studies, as well as professionals wanting to learn more about the changing dynamics of contemporary data practices.

Author : Betsy Van der Veer Martens
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031325303
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Keywords In and Out of Context written by Betsy Van der Veer Martens and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-03 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the rich history of the keyword from its earliest manifestations (long before it appeared anywhere in Google Trends or library cataloging textbooks) in order to illustrate its implicit and explicit mediation of human cognition and communication processes. The author covers the concept of the keyword from its deictic origins in primate and proto-speech communities, through its development within oral traditions, to its initial appearances in numerous graphical forms and its workings over time within a variety of indexing traditions and technologies. The book follows the history all the way to its role in search engine optimization and social media strategies and its potential as an element in the slowly emerging semantic web, as well as in multiple voice search applications. The author synthesizes different perspectives on the significance of this often-invisible intermediary, both in and out of the library and information science context, helping readers to understand how it has come to be so embedded in our daily life. This book: Provides a thorough history of the keyword, from primate and proto-speech communities to current times Explains how the concept of the keyword relates to human cognition and communication processes Highlights the applications of the keyword, both in and out of the library and information science context

Author : Seth Rudy
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137411546
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain written by Seth Rudy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain tells the story of long-term aspirations to comprehend, record, and disseminate complete knowledge of the world. It draws on a wide range of literary and non-literary works from the early modern era and British Enlightenment.