Understanding Change in Web Search.readings
M1: Attending
Re-seeing. So what? Raising questions.
session 1: intros
session 2: shaping
- reading:
- @introna2000shaping
session 3: goals (or: search results)
- readings:
- @couvering2007relevance [pp. 866--867, pp. 871-885, SKIM the rest]
- @gillespie2014relevance [pp. 167--169, pp. 191--192]
- @sundin2021relevance
session 4: user responsibility (or: literacy & queries)
- readings:
- @tripodi2018searching [pp. 27--34]
- @caulfield2019data
- @lurie2021searching_facctrec [p. 8 Analyzing Information Seekers]
- @hendry2008conceptual (SKIM)
session 5: money (or: advertising)
- readings:
- @ftc2013sample
- @daly2017profiling [pp. 307-308, the two paragraphs starting at "Ofcom" and "This research was followed by a further Ofcom report" and p. 313 Paid-for Advertising]
- @asher-schapiro2022gaming
session 6: voids
- readings:
- @diresta2018complexity
- @golebiewski2018data
- related:
- @golebiewski2019data
session 7: harms
- readings:
- @noble2018algorithms [pp. 66--86]
M2: Infrastructures, components, & interactions
How does it work? Understanding the mechanisms and functions.
session 8: Handoff
- in-class:
- workshopping Module 1 assignment
- Handoff lecture [@mulligan2020concept]
session 9: infrastructures
- readings:
- @haider2019invisible [pp. 49--72 The materialities of search]
- related:
- @sundin2020where
session 10: quality control (or: search content moderation)
- readings:
- @gillespie2018custodians [pp. 184--187]
- @gillespie2017algorithmically
session 11: hidden workers (or: search quality raters)
- readings:
- @meisner2022labor
- @google2022sqeg [read: 2.3 Your Money or Your Life (YMYL) Topics & 4.2 Harmful to Self or Other Individuals & 4.4 Harmfully Misleading Information; search the PDF for [health] and read those items; SKIM the rest]
session 12:
reactivity (or: search engine optimization (SEO))
- readings:
- @ziewitz2019rethinking
- @noble2018algorithms [pp. 86-90 "How Pornification Happened to “Black Girls” in the Search Engine"]
- https://developers.google.com/search/docs [SKIM]
- related:
- @lewandowski2021influence
session 13
- in-class:
- workshopping Module 2 assignment
- exploring Module 3 cases and identifying teams
session 14: alternative search tools
- in-class: explorations
session 15: alternative search tools
- in-class: explorations
M3: Case studies in web search for health, healthcare, and medicine
How do people use search? How search do engines shape searching? How do we use search to inform or shape interventions? Who?
Students will break into 8 teams to lead 1/2 of a class session for the these four weeks. All readings will be identified prior to Spring Break.
- Climate change
- @haider2023google
- COVID-19 & “infodemic’
- @simon2021autopsy
- @toepfl2022plotters
- @sundin2021relevance
- Queer healthcare
- @augustaitis2021online
- @kreines2018quality
- Reproductive health & abortion
- @upadhyay2023using
- @hassard2020digital
- Dr. Google Meme
- @boyle2023physicians
- Vaccinations
- @ghezzi2020online
M4: Reimagining search
- general readings:
- @hendry2008conceptual [pp. 278-279 The question...; pp. 301--305 Discussion & Conclusion]
- @vaidhyanathan2011googlization [pp. 200--204 Imagining a Better Way]
- @noble2018algorithms [pp. 134--152 The Future of Knowledge in the Public OR 153--169 The Future of Information Culture; pp. 179--181 Imagining Alternatives: Toward Public Noncommercial Search]
- @shah2022situating
- @sundin2021relevance [pp. 5--6 Ideas for Future Research]
- @lewandowski2019web
session 22: imagining and crafting
- read: Ruha Benjamin “Introduction: Discriminatory Design, Liberating Imagination,” in Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life, ed. Ruha Benjamin (Duke University Press, 2019), 1–14, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv11sn78h (open access at https://www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMaterials/978-1-4780-0381-6_601.pdf)
“Ultimately, my hope is for you, the reader, to imagine and craft the worlds you cannot live without, just as you dismantle the ones we cannot live within.” (p. 14)
session 23: scripts & articulations
Presented w/ excerpts from:
- @akrich1992scription
- @mulligan2018rescripting
- @selbst2019fairness
- @lurie2021searching_facctrec
- @gillespie2014relevance
- @griffin2022search
session 24: counternarratives, counter stories, counter-imaginaries
Presented w/ excerpts from:
- @gillespie2014relevance
- @skrubbeltrang2017ripinstagram
session 25: interpretive flexibility
Presented w/ reference to:
- @pinch1984social
- @narayanan2022google
- @tripodi2018searching
- @vertesi2019affordances
- @nissenbaum2011preemption
session 26: web search and sexism
A student requested I cover this in more depth.
Presented w/ excerpts from:
- @noble2018algorithms
- @cadwalladr2016google
- @urman2022foreign
- @tripodi2021ms
- @dave2022google
- @ogilvy2013autocomplete