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Links and power: the political economy of linking on the Web

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Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia archive
Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia table of contents

College Park, Maryland, USA

SESSION: Links table of contents

Pages: 72 - 73

Year of Publication: 2002

ISBN:1-58113-477-0

Author

Jill Walker

University of Bergen, Norway

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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Downloads (6 Weeks): 12, Downloads (12 Months): 60, Citation Count: 7

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ABSTRACT

Search engines like Google interpret links to a web page as objective, peer-endorsed and machine-readable signs of value. Links have become the currency of the Web. With this economic value they also have power, affecting accessibility and knowledge on the Web.

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	Jill Walker, Feral hypertext: when hypertext literature escapes control, Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia, September 06-09, 2005, Salzburg, Austria
	Ludovic Collet , Xavier Le Pallec , Alain Derycke , Frédéric Hoogstoel, A groupware environment for transient virtual organization building, Proceedings of the 15th French-speaking conference on human-computer interaction on 15eme Conference Francophone sur l'Interaction Homme-Machine, p.56-63, November 25-28, 2003, Caen, France
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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
K. Computing Milieux
K.4 COMPUTERS AND SOCIETY
K.4.m Miscellaneous

General Terms:
Design, Human Factors, Theory

Keywords:
accessibility, blogdex, community, google, knowledge, links, politics, power, search engines, survival, theory, weblogs

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