Preferred Placement - Knowledge Politics on the Web

Preferred Placement - Knowledge Politics on the Web"Preferred placement turns the tables on Web analysis to date. Instead of celebrating the Web and all its prospects for creative artistry, democracy and e commerce, the volume authors calmly go backstage. How are search engines, portals, default settings and collaborative filtering formatting the surfer and offering passage to the media? A colourful spectrum of thinkers queries the medium's preferencing and recommendation mechanisms with an eye

allows me to ground these metaphysics in the folklore of the Caribbean

from women liberation slogans to dishwashing instructions

concrete and visual poetry

Nomura’s images play with longing

Lauren Cornell

musicologist and educator Brigitte Schiffer fled Nazi Germany for Egypt in the mid-1930s

Drawing on oral and written testimonies from academics and students who have made complaints about harassment

internationally known for her artistic and scholarly reflections on this complex subject

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and blank space within the architecture of the page

facial recognition technology and mobile applications

based on self-representation