![]() ![]() In the end, serious objections to Google are raised: Google may favor popularity over richness it provides advertising that competes directly with “editorial” content it so overwhelmingly dominates the industry that users seldom get a second opinion, and this is unlikely to change. In this chapter, I adopt a “deliberative” ideal for search engines and examine whether Google exhibits the “same old” media biases of mainstreaming, hypercommercialism, and industry consolidation. The mechanisms and conditions under which search results are selected should therefore be of considerable interest to media scholars, political theorists, and citizens alike. Search engines like Google are essential to navigating the Web’s endless supply of news, political information, and citizen discourse.
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