Information Politics on the Web

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Information Politics on the Web. Richard Rogers. MIT Press 2004

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On November 1 The American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) awarded Richard Rogers 'Information Politics on the Web' (MIT Press, 2004) as the `Best Information Science Book of the Year'. Richard Rogers is Director of govcom.org, an Amsterdam-based foundation dedicated to creating and hosting political tools on the Web, and Assistant Professor in Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam.

Excerpt: Does the information on the 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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