Where’s Walden?: Searching, Googling, Reading, and Living in the Digital Age

Authors

  • Ethan Hawkley

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22230/src.2017v8n2a277

Keywords:

History of indexing, History of reading, Information studies, Online searching, Google, Literacy, Reading / histoire de l'indexation, Histoire de lecture, Etudes d'information, Recherche sur l'Internet, Alphabétisme, Lecture

Abstract

Searching has a history. In this paper I analyze that history by dividing search into two methods: indexing and reading.

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Published

2017-09-14

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 2 (2017)

Section

Reprint (Original published 2009)

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