SEASON 2025: CONFERENCE OF THE SEARCH ENGINES AND SOCIETY NETWORK
PROGRAM FOR WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24TH
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09:00-09:15 Session 2: Introduction

Olof Sundin, Programme Chair

Dirk Lewandowski, Local Chair 

09:15-10:30 Session 3: Keynote- AlgorithmWatch: Algorithmic Accountability Reporting Revisited

Matthias Spielkamp, co-founder and executive director of AlgorithmWatch

10:30-11:00Coffee Break
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
12:30-13:30Lunch Break
13:30-14:45 Session 5A: Workshop
13:30
Search Engine Ethics and You: Co-Designing Tools for Public Engagement
13:30-14:45 Session 5B: Panel
Educational consequences of the changing landscape of searching
14:45-15:15Coffee Break
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