Shaping the web: Why the politics of search engines matters

Information Society

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 169-185

  Introna, Lucas D ^a   Nissenbaum, Helen ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Digital divide; Information access; Search engines; Values in design; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034338025     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: 10876537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01972240050133634     Document Type: Article

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