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+retriev...

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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) ----- Michael Zimmer, PhD Microsoft Fellow, Information Society Project Yale Law School e: michael.zimmer@yale.edu w: http://michaelzimmer.org