SEASON 2025: CONFERENCE OF THE SEARCH ENGINES AND SOCIETY NETWORK
PROGRAM
Days: Wednesday, September 24th Thursday, September 25th
Wednesday, September 24th
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11:00-12:30 Session 4A: Epistemic Shifts
11:00 From Validity to Inter-Subjectivity: An Argument for Reliability Signals in Search Environments
11:30 Conceptualising Ignorance Logics in Search — with Examples of Environmental Issues
12:00 Absent Links: LLMs, Search Infrastructures, and the Information Ecosystem
11:00-12:30 Session 4B: User Perspectives on Search
11:00 Re-search.site: a bespoke platform for capturing, comparing and critiquing knowledge infrastructures of searching
11:30 Bias is in the Eye of the Beholder: How Users Understand Search Engine Bias and How It Affects Trust in Search Results
12:00 Ambisearchers: Search Modalities and Algorithmic Awareness
15:15-16:30 Session 6A: Algorithms and social meaning
15:15 Investigating the Reinforcement of Social Norms in Image Search Results
15:30 Visualizing social memory – How visual search engines structure the social memory
15:45 Empirically measuring algorithmically embodied emissions of information access systems
16:00 Exploring the search for home and belonging. Search engines as players on the property market.
15:15-16:30 Session 6B: New solutions and methods
15:15 Towards Inclusive Search: Integrating Language Complexity in Information Retrieval
15:30 Decentralizing Web Search: the PeARS search engine
15:45 Effect of search engine optimisation on reliable healthcare information online | Healthcare SEO
16:00 ChatGPT vs Google Search: A topic flow analysis of Reddit discussions
16:30-18:30 Session 7: Poster Session and Refreshments
SearchBench: Evaluating Citation Practices in AI-Powered Search Engines
Detecting Strategic Neologisms in Ideological Online Discourses: A System for Topic and Query Extraction
Gerontological Perspectives on Technostress and E-Fatigue Among University of the Philippines Diliman Librarians: Insights on Their Use of Search Engines
NPDS FAIR Search Engines with Interoperable Exchange of the Free Flow of Findable Facts in Open Collaboration Networks
Planetary Sapience and Speculative Visions of Search Engines
Query Log Analysis on an Academic Search Portal for Economics and Business Studies
What Citizens Search and Municipal Websites Offer
How search engines frame political initiatives
Ranking of Wikipedia Articles in Search Engines. Partial replication of the study ”Ranking of Wikipedia articles revisited” from 2011
Reflecting on search histories: a survey design to uncover users’ cognitive and motivational processes
Invisible in Search? Auditing Gender Bias in the Visual Representation of Holocaust Victims on Google
Algorithmic Masculinity – Encounters with the Manosphere
Web Search on Emerging Topics
Beyond Topicality: How do Social and Life Scientists select what to read?
Do They Capture All the Attention? Analyzing Google’s AI Overviews Using Eye-Tracking and Quality Evaluation
Enhancing Open Data Findability through Generative AI: A Conceptual Approach to Improving Structured Data Discovery
Climate disinformation on Google Search
Are schools suitable for information literacy education? Critical reflections and perspectives from Danish lower secondary school
ReSearch: Researching the transforming landscape of information seeking – AI technologies and learning in Swedish schools
Thursday, September 25th
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08:30-09:00 Coffee & Registration
10:45-12:15 Session 9A: Politics and Conflicts 1
10:45 Negotiating knowledge by referring to search: exploring the verb ‘to google’ in Swedish online discussions on the climate
11:15 Auditing what the algorithm pays attention to at the time of war: How image search framed the Russian-Ukrainian war before and after the 2022 invasion
11:45 Auditing Bias: Detecting and Quantifying Bias in Search Query Suggestions for US Politicians
10:45-12:15 Session 9B: Ethics
10:45 Ethics-by-design: A values framework for open web search
11:15 Reclaiming Search: Ecosia and the Shifting Moral Economy of Digital Infrastructure
11:45 Reimagining Search: A Privacy-Preserving and Inclusive Infrastructure for Disability Knowledge Retrieval
13:15-14:45 Session 10B: Everyday Life
13:15 Global reach and local context: the impact of bilinguality on online search
13:30 Auditing Google's AI Overviews and Featured Snippets: A Case Study on Baby Care and Pregnancy
14:00 Rethinking search intent: from traditional search engines to AI-powered information retrieval
15:00-16:00 Session 11: The Evolving Search Landscape
15:00 Assessing Recommendation Diversity in Search Results: Approaches Using Data Donations and Artificial Personas
15:30 Artificial Intelligence and the Transformation of Online Search: Findings from a Study Commissioned by the German State Media Authorities