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?
Fn11. In addition to forthcoming work π€, see: [\@mindyjiang](https://twitter.com/mindyjiang)'s "Search concentration, bias, and parochialism" (2014): "When searchers are bounded by βthe local,β 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 β 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.βs (2010) framework of postcolonial computing, ββa project of understanding how all design research and practice is culturally located and power laden,ββ we sought to critically examine the cultural assumptions of blocking technologies..."
Emended: "Defined by Irani et al.βs (2010) framework of postcolonial computing, ββa project of understanding how all design research and practice is culturally located and power laden,ββ we sought to critically examine the cultural assumptions of ["localization"] technologies..."