postcolonial localization in search

\@danielsgriffin via Twitter on Aug 25, 2019

Imagined Postcolonial Emendations in Searching

Q: How might we imagine Google, its cultural searching assumptions, and its "localization" in search suggestions through a postcolonial discourse?

I tweeted out the above question, pointing to an earlier thread, in this quoted tweet on a critical incident regarding #NoMeCuidanMeViolan and Google search suggestions.

\@danielsgriffin via Twitter on Aug 23, 2019

Fn11. In addition to forthcoming work 🤞, see: [\@mindyjiang](https://twitter.com/mindyjiang)'s "Search concentration, bias, and parochialism" (2014): "When searchers are bounded by “the local,” including its political arrangement, cultural content, and ideological outlook,...

...the diffusion of information, knowledge, and ideas globally through borderless search drifts further away." https://doi.org/10.1111/jcom.12126

"postcolonial discourse – that is, a discourse centered on the questions of power, authority, legitimacy, participation, and intelligibility in the contexts of cultural encounter, particularly in the context of contemporary globalization." - @irani2010postcolonial

Original: "Defined by Irani et al.’s (2010) framework of postcolonial computing, ‘‘a project of understanding how all design research and practice is culturally located and power laden,’’ we sought to critically examine the cultural assumptions of blocking technologies..."

The above is a quotation from @jonas2019friction.

Emended: "Defined by Irani et al.’s (2010) framework of postcolonial computing, ‘‘a project of understanding how all design research and practice is culturally located and power laden,’’ we sought to critically examine the cultural assumptions of ["localization"] technologies..."

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