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Whose Relevance? : Web Search Engines as Multi-sided Relevance Machines

Sundin, Olof LU orcid ; Lewandowski, Dirk LU and Haider, Jutta LU (2022) In Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 73(5). p.637-642
Abstract
This opinion piece takes Google's response to the so-called COVID-19 infodemic, as a starting point to argue for the need to consider societal relevance as a complement to other types of relevance. The authors maintain that if information science wants to be a discipline at the forefront of research on relevance, search engines, and their use, then the information science research community needs to address itself to the challenges and conditions that commercial search engines create in. The article concludes with a tentative list of related research topics.
Abstract (Swedish)
This opinion piece takes Google’s response to the so-called COVID-19 infodemic, as a starting point to argue for the need to consider societal relevance as a complement to other types of relevance. The authors maintain that if information science wants to be a discipline at the forefront of research on relevance, search engines, and their use, then the information science research community needs to address itself to the challenges and conditions that commercial search engines create in. The article concludes with a tentative list of related research topics.
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search engines, information control, relevance, search engines, relevance
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
volume
73
issue
5
pages
637 - 642
publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc.
external identifiers
  • scopus:85113243268
ISSN
2330-1635
DOI
10.1002/asi.24570
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Algorithms and Literacies: Young people's understanding and society's expectations
In Search of Search and its Engines - Theme, Pufendorf IAS
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English
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  language     = {{eng}},
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  publisher    = {{John Wiley & Sons Inc.}},
  series       = {{Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology}},
  title        = {{Whose Relevance? : Web Search Engines as Multi-sided Relevance Machines}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.24570}},
  doi          = {{10.1002/asi.24570}},
  volume       = {{73}},
  year         = {{2022}},
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