The googlization of everything: (and why we should worry) [Updated ed] 9780520272897, 9780520952454, 0520952456

Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction: The Gospel of Google; 1. Render unto Caesar: How Google Came to Rule the Web; 2.

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The googlization of everything: (and why we should worry) [Updated ed]
 9780520272897, 9780520952454, 0520952456

Table of contents :
Cover
Contents
Preface
Introduction: The Gospel of Google
1. Render unto Caesar: How Google Came to Rule the Web
2. Google's Ways and Means: Faith in Aptitude and Technology
3. The Googlization of Us: Universal Surveillance and Infrastructural Imperialism
4. The Googlization of the World: Prospects for a Global Public Sphere
5. The Googlization of Knowledge: The Future of Books
6. The Googlization of Memory: Information Overload, Filters, and the Fracturing of Knowledge
Conclusion: The Human Knowledge Project
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index.

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