Searching Out Loud is a digital age information and media literacy text book for independent investigators, researchers, consultants, educators, and any lifelong learner whose curiosity is matched only by their rejection of unquestioning assumptions.
The concept of a search book is that.
everyone searches, no one likes to search, and we put our faith in algorithms to complete our thoughts.
This book is intended for someone who produces research as a scientist/academic, investigator/journalist, and/or consultant/legal professional.
These are folks who are rewarded for their independence: Drawing conclusions supported by evidence, not a predetermined outcome.
They convey intent just fine without the algorithms.
The first two units instruct readers on how to locate, evaluate, and use online information in their evidence-based investigations.
In units three and four we apply source knowledge and fact-finding to the perspective-taking needed to interpret how that same information is created, shaped, and presented.
Understanding the motives of the provider is critical to any web-based investigation.
It's also core to the content analysis of social media we now stream with fewer assumptions and a more critical eye for inspection.
What ends up in our search results and news feeds -- and why? Those are questions that fall outside the search box and squarely in these pages.
So too do answers to research questions that begin with a conditional reflex like it depends and how likely is likelier? Searching Out Loud takes the exchange between researchers and search engines out of one-way conversations and into the realm of detective work.
The bullhorn-like proclamation of the book's title suggests that searching is neither introspective nor restricted to a hushed confession-like disclosures between petitioners and their technological priests.
Rather, forming questions, matching patterns, unscrambling mixed signals, weighing explanations, and questioning the assumptions t.
| Independence | Drawing conclusions supported by evidence not a predetermined outcome |
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Society For Useful Information Searching out loud: giving voice to independent investigations: complete works, paperback/marc solomon
