Search engines and power: A politics of online (mis-) information

Webology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Segev, Elad ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Google Earth; Information inequalities; Misinformation; Politics of online information; Search engines; Structural biases

Indexed keywords

EID: 59349102528     PISSN: 1735188X     EISSN: 1735188X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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