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Segev, Elad. 2019. Volume and control: the transition from information to power. Journal of multicultural discourses 14 (3) : 240–257. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Annotation
Drawing on the political economy of communication, sociology and information science literature, this article introduces an analytical framework to grasp the mechanisms through which information is turned into power. Volume is defined as the informational resources. Control is described via two competing and complementary mechanisms: popularization and personalization. This framework is then applied to demonstrate Google’s monopoly of knowledge, its PageRank algorithm.