Ever since I was a child, I\u2019ve been using text\nsearching without actually realizing it. \nGoogle has become synonymous with looking up information, which in fact\nhas become its own phrase to look up information, \u201cGoogle it\u201d. Text searching, and more importantly, keyword\nsearching changes the way I engage with information in a couple of ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For one, when I need to look up information, I have to\nfigure out which keywords are important for the information I\u2019m looking for. When using JSTOR or other library databases\nfor looking up articles, I don\u2019t look up specific information, rather I use a few\nwords that might give the database a general idea of what I want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Secondly, due to the keyword searching, I don\u2019t always get the exact kinds of articles I need for said information. Instead, I get information from the same resource as many other people. This can create a problem, which has been documented before in Ian Milligan\u2019s article <\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span>, where numerous different people get the same information from one source. This can skew information towards what that one article had to say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I believe digital projects can create social change,\nif that\u2019s what the projects intended purpose was in the first place. However, there needs to be a balance of interactivity\nwith the project, good UI to assist the user, and good information to garner\ninterest. However, many projects seem to\nbe ignored by the mass public, which shows that it can be rare for one project\nto have much effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While digital media can increase the ease of gaining\ninformation, you lose the ability of many of your senses. For instance, feeling an object can be much more\neffecting at showing how old it is, or what it\u2019s made of rather than just\nlooking at it. In the case of Tony\u2019s\npresentation, the nazi coin is something we could feel the difference in, not\njust see. By losing the ability to sense\nan object fully, we lose the ability to gain all the information possible from\nthat object.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Citations: \nMilligan, Ian. \u201cIllusionary Order: Online Databases, Optical Character\nRecognition, and Canadian History, 1997-2010.\u201d \nThe Canadian Historical Review<\/em>, vol. 94 no. 4, 2013, pp.\n540-569. Project MUSE<\/em>,\nmuse.jhu.edu\/article\/527016. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ever since I was a child, I\u2019ve been using text searching without actually realizing it. Google has become synonymous with looking up information, which in fact has become its own phrase to look up information, \u201cGoogle it\u201d. Text searching, and more importantly, keyword searching changes the way I engage with information in a couple of … Continue reading “My Experience With Text Searching”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-searching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}