MIT Press
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.Rogers describes the
politics at work on the Web as either back-end -- the politics of search engine
technology -- or front-end -- the diversity, inclusivity, and relative prominence of
sites publicly accessible on the Web. To analyze this, he developed four "political
instruments," or software tools that gather information about the Web by capturing
dynamic linking practices, attention cycles for issues, and changing political party
commitments. On the basis of his findings on how information politics works, Rogers
argues that the Web should be, and can be, a "collision space" for official and
unofficial accounts of reality. (One chapter, "The Viagra Files" offers an
entertaining analysis of official and unofficial claims for the health benefits of
Viagra.) The distinctiveness of the Web as a medium lies partly in the peculiar
practices that grant different statuses to information sources. The tools developed
by Rogers capture these practices and contribute to the development of a new
information politics that takes into account and draws from the competition between
the official, the non-governmental, and the underground.
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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.Rogers describes the
politics at work on the Web as either back-end -- the politics of search engine
technology -- or front-end -- the diversity, inclusivity, and relative prominence of
sites publicly accessible on the Web. To analyze this, he developed four "political
instruments," or software tools that gather information about the Web by capturing
dynamic linking practices, attention cycles for issues, and changing political party
commitments. On the basis of his findings on how information politics works, Rogers
argues that the Web should be, and can be, a "collision space" for official and
unofficial accounts of reality. (One chapter, "The Viagra Files" offers an
entertaining analysis of official and unofficial claims for the health benefits of
Viagra.) The distinctiveness of the Web as a medium lies partly in the peculiar
practices that grant different statuses to information sources. The tools developed
by Rogers capture these practices and contribute to the development of a new
information politics that takes into account and draws from the competition between
the official, the non-governmental, and the underground.
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