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Indexing Systems

By Alberto Cevolini

Indexing Systems

By Alberto Cevolini

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This book analyses search engines as indexing systems: structures of social memory, designed to organise information access when knowledge is stored in archives. It views indexing systems as a highly improbable outcome of socio-cultural evolution, and charts the main stages of this social process through the impact of printing on knowledge organisation, the rise of mechanical memory, the practice of tagging, and contemporary strategies of de-indexing. In the process, the book sheds new light on the underexplored sociological question “Where do search engines come from?”
Product details
Number of Pages:
232
Release Date:
2026-01-24
Publication Date:
2026-01-24
Publisher:
Springer
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
3032138124
ISBN13:
9783032138125
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
416 g
Height:
153 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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