Re-orientating Search Engine Research in Information Science

Éditeurs invités

• Dirk Lewandowski, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
• Jutta Haider, Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås
• Olof Sundin, Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University

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Thèmes proposés

• Social and cultural aspects of relevance
• Epistemic implications of search-engine use
• Search engine bias (e.g., in terms of race, gender, class) and marginalization
• Fair search
• Search engine providers’ responsibility and accountability
• Search engines as multi-sided platforms
• History of web search and web search engines
• Ethical considerations related to search engines
• Affect and emotional aspects of search engine use
• Information literacy related to search engines
• Search engines and specific groups (children, elderly,...)
• Search engines and studies of ignorance and information avoidance
• Search engines in everyday life and in social practices
• Search engines in educational settings
• Alternative approaches to concepts of indexing in search engines
• Search engines and the role of data voids
• Negotiations of search results (search engine optimization, paid search advertising)
• Search engine comparisons (e.g., comparing results tailored to different locations, comparing results from different search engines)
• Methods for search engine research
• Data collection for search engine studies
• Approaches to 'opening the Black Box of search engine rankings'