Behind the Search Box

Google and the Global Internet Industry

ShinJoung Yeo (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2023
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08712-7 (ISBN)

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Once seen as a harbinger of a new enlightened capitalism, Google has become a model of robber baron rapaciousness thanks to its ruthless monetizing of private data, obsession with monopoly, and pervasive systems of labor discrimination and exploitation. Using the company as a jumping-off point, ShinJoung Yeo explores the political economy of the search engine industry against the backdrop of the relationship between information and capitalism’s developmental processes. Yeo’s critical analysis draws on in-depth discussions of essential issues like how the search engine evolved into a ubiquitous commercial service, it’s place in a global information business that is restructuring the information industry and our very social lives, who exactly designs and uses search technology, what kinds of workers labor behind the scenes, and the influence of geopolitics. An incisive look at a pervasive presence in our lives, Behind the Search Box places the search engine industry’s rise and ongoing success within an original political economy of digital capitalism.

ShinJoung Yeo is assistant professor of media studies at Queens College, City University of New York.

Acknowledgments Introduction

Searching for Profits
Situating Search
Laboring Behind the Search
Digital Welfare Capitalism
Market Dynamics and Geopolitics

Conclusion Notes

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	20.04.2023
Reihe/Serie	The Geopolitics of Information
Zusatzinfo	3 tables
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	313 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Web / Internet
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	0-252-08712-7 / 0252087127
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08712-7 / 9780252087127
Zustand	Neuware