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Based on the findings of the European project FILTER, which investigated the cultural, economic, and language filtering of online content with partners in 12 European countries, this book highlights the types of filtering that arise from design features such as browsers, commercial search engines, portals, and intellectual-property-protected software. With hands-on recommendations for policymakers, managers, and practitioners in the office or the classroom, this study includes key insights on cultural inclusiveness of online content and describes its policy implications. It also discusses promising initiatives to safeguard cultural inclusiveness through web logs, open source, minority languages tools, semantic web, and personalization options.Bunt-Kokhuis, Sylvia van de is the author of 'World Wide Work: Filtering of Online Content in a Globalized World', published 2006 under ISBN 9789053839836 and ISBN 9053839836.
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