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Paul Beaufait

Personal Web searching in the age of semantic capitalism: Diagnosing the mechanisms of ... - 0 views

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Google personalization research search engines semantic capitalism

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  • Paul Beaufait on 29 Jan 19
     
    "Our findings contribute to an improved understanding of the effects personalisation has and proposes several lines of interpretation of the quantitative data. Based on this, we conclude that more research is urgently needed to develop a wider understanding of the social and cultural implications of personalisation of Web search in people's everyday life (Introduction, ¶6).
Paul Beaufait

How the internet flips elections and alters our thoughts | Aeon Essays - 0 views

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Google personalization research search engines semantic capitalism

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  • randomised, controlled experiments tell us over and over again that when higher-ranked items connect with web pages that favour one candidate, this has a dramatic impact on the opinions of undecided voters, in large part for the simple reason that people tend to click only on higher-ranked items. This is truly scary
  • search engines are influencing far more than what people buy and whom they vote for. We now have evidence suggesting that on virtually all issues where people are initially undecided, search rankings are impacting almost every decision that people make
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