Information Politics on the Web

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Does information available through the World Wide Web offer many alternative accounts of reality, or does it subtly align with an official version? In Information Politics on the Web Richard Rogers identifies the cultures, techniques, and devices that rank and recommend information on the Web, analyzing not only the political content of Web sites but the politics built into the Web's infrastructure. Addressing the larger question of what the Web is for, Rogers argues that the Web is still the best arena for ...
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Overview

Does information available through the World Wide Web offer many alternative accounts of reality, or does it subtly align with an official version? In Information Politics on the Web Richard Rogers identifies the cultures, techniques, and devices that rank and recommend information on the Web, analyzing not only the political content of Web sites but the politics built into the Web's infrastructure. Addressing the larger question of what the Web is for, Rogers argues that the Web is still the best arena for unsettling the official and challenging the familiar.
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"A brilliant deciphering of informational politics. Rogers shows us how the Web can be a site for both officialdom and its unsettling. He also proposes a Web epistemology based on the ways in which Web dynamics can function as embedded adjudication cultures, and thus assess the trustworthiness of information sources." Saskia Sassen, University of Chicago, author of Globalization and Its Discontents
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780262182423
  • Publisher: MIT Press
  • Publication date: 12/1/2004
  • Pages: 212
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.75 (d)

Meet the Author

Richard Rogers is University Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam, and the author of Information Politics on the Web (MIT Press). He is Director of the Govcom.org Foundation (Amsterdam) and the Digital Methods Initiative.

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Table of Contents

1 Introduction : behind the practice of information politics 1
2 The Viagra files : the Web as collision space between official and unofficial accounts of reality 35
3 Mapping de-territorialization : classic politics in tatters 59
4 After Genoa : remedying informational politics and augmenting reality with the Web 93
5 Election issue tracker : monitoring the politics of attention 137
6 The practice of information politics on the Web 163
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