[Commlist] New book: Behind the Search Box

*Behind the Search Box***

Google and the Global Internet Industry

*ShinJoung Yeo***

*https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9780252087127/behind-the-search-box/*


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“The book reminds readers that despite all the various new labels of 
supposedly new forms of capitalism, we really are still talking about 
capitalism after all. An important book that promises to make a major 
contribution to the ever-accumulating research on the new digital 
monopolies. Yeo’s analysis is original and incisive.”*--Victor Pickard, 
author of **/Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the 
Misinformation Society/*//

Once seen as a harbinger of a new enlightened capitalism, Google has 
become a model of robber baron rapaciousness thanks to its ruthless 
monetizing of private data, obsession with monopoly, and pervasive 
systems of labor discrimination and exploitation. Using the company as a 
jumping-off point, ShinJoung Yeo explores the political economy of the 
search engine industry against the backdrop of the relationship between 
information and capitalism’s developmental processes. Yeo’s critical 
analysis draws on in-depth discussions of essential issues like how the 
search engine evolved into a ubiquitous commercial service, it’s place 
in a global information business that is restructuring the information 
industry and our very social lives, who exactly designs and uses search 
technology, what kinds of workers labor behind the scenes, and the 
influence of geopolitics.

  An incisive look at a pervasive presence in our lives, /Behind the 
Search Box/places the search engine industry’s rise and ongoing success 
within an original political economy of digital capitalism.

*ShinJoung Yeo*is assistant professor of media studies at Queens 
College, City University of New York.



*University of Illinois Press**| The Geopolitics of Information | April 
2023 | 240pp | 9780252087127 | PB | £23.99**

*Price subject to change.

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