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Kulturowy interfejs Google: paradygmat audiowizualności w uniwersum słowa
Google’s Cultural Interface: The Paradigm of Audiovisuality in the Universe of Words

Author(s): Justyna Skrzypnik
Subject(s): Media studies, Social Informatics, Sociology of Culture, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: search engines; Google search engine; image in the Internet; word in the Internet;

Summary/Abstract: Although the Google search engine is considered as the nervous system of the Internet, its role in the new media universe is still undetermined. The search engine, placed between the Web 2.0 medium and the mechanism of content selection, is ambigous, and its website can be easily distinguished from social media news feeds. As for the domination of visual content, SERP can be considered as the last stand of the words in the iconosphere. In the context of the digital content and its representation, the borders between verbal and visual communication are fluid and mistakable, while the relations between them can be discussed in a wider cultural context.

  • Issue Year: 19/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 67-76
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish