Download PDF by Siva Vaidhyanathan: The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry)

By Siva Vaidhyanathan

ISBN-10: 0520258827

ISBN-13: 9780520258822

Before everything, the realm vast net used to be fascinating and open to the purpose of anarchy, an unlimited and intimidating repository of unindexed confusion. Into this inventive chaos got here Google with its incredible mission--"To set up the world's info and make it universally accessible"--and its much-quoted motto, "Don't be Evil." during this provocative publication, Siva Vaidhyanathan examines the methods we now have used and embraced Google--and the becoming resistance to its enlargement around the globe. He exposes the darkish facet of our Google fantasies, elevating purple flags approximately problems with highbrow estate and the much-touted Google booklet seek. He assesses Google's international impression, really in China, and explains the insidious impression of Googlization at the means we expect. ultimately, Vaidhyanathan proposes the development of a web environment designed to profit the complete international and hold one outstanding and robust corporation from falling into the "evil" it pledged to prevent.

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And photo maps • photographs, digital images, motion pictures, videos, and audio tapes (if they contain relevant information) • aerial photographs, satellite images, and other remotely sensed data in photographic or digital form pared from original information so they have a high probability of being accurate and free of bias. Original sources are materials that come directly from the individual (or instrument) that collected them. These include ships’ logs, scientific field notes, first-person accounts of travel or investigation, original photographs (ground or aerial), satellite images and digital data, and original data that is collected on the ground by researchers and/or instruments such as the census-takers’ reports from a national census or climate data gathered at a weather station, for example.

They are written in lay person’s terms, which may make them more accessible for students. They reveal information about how people live, about how places look, and about the traveler’s impressions, which may be left out of more formal reports. First-person reports by survivors of natural disasters are also easy to locate on the Internet. They commonly appear soon after a hurricane, earthquake, tornado, volcanic eruption, or tsunami, for example. org/hurricane has information for younger students that includes a family’s account of surviving Hurricane Andrew in 1992.

Geographers also rely on primary data collected directly through field observations. While their travel opportunities may be more limited, students, too, can gather field data in order to answer geographic questions. For example, students can conduct surveys on consumer shopping habits or product preferences. They can record traffic volume on streets near their school in order to examine variations in patterns and frequency. , city, state, country). Geographers draw upon qualitative (descriptive) data as well.

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