Projects / Investigating Search
Investigating Search brings together my writing and interactive research on search engines. I study the editorial choices behind results and the cultural and commercial systems that make those choices feel ordinary.
Book and research
Investigating Google's Search Engine follows the ethics, cultural questions and economics of search. It asks what happens when a system that organises knowledge is also built around advertising.
View the book at Bloomsbury Read more of my writingWorking prototype and authored notes
The Interface offers short reflective prompts beside selected searches. Authored topic notes explain the research question behind a prompt and point to selected readings. Public access to the prototype is held while it is reviewed.
Prototype and topic notes in developmentAvailable research viewer
Move through a selected body of critical and social research on search engines by theme, citation, shared authorship and time. The viewer and its searchable bibliography use the same collection.
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