SEASON2026: SEASON 2026: THE SEARCH ENGINES AND SOCIETY CONFERENCE
PROGRAM FOR TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15TH
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08:45-09:15Coffee & Registration
09:15-09:30 Session 1: Introduction

Presenters:

  • Conference Chair: Rosie Graham
  • Local Chairs: Dirk Lewandowski and Sebastian Schultheiß.
09:15
Welcome and Opening
PRESENTER: Rosie Graham
09:30-10:30 Session 2: Keynote: Thomas Höppner
09:30
Impact of Search Engines on Society: Lessons from Antitrust Cases
10:30-11:00Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Session 3A: Track A: Political Bias & Elections
11:00
Elections in the Age of Algorithms: Evidence of Political Bias in Search Engines and Large Language Models
11:30
Using generative AI instead of search engines? Comparison and implications in the context of five state elections in Germany
12:00
Restricted (Over)view: Audit of Google's and Bing's AI summaries in the context of Swiss popular votes
11:00-12:30 Session 3B: Track B: Everyday Practice & Communities
11:00
Emerging frictions: visual generative AI and the prompting practices of trans and nonbinary people
11:15
Multilingual across multiple platforms: researching the role of language in the everyday
11:30
Chatbot creep: Generative AI in the everyday information practices of young adults
11:45
Hello Donauwörth, I’m looking for…: Searching for Administrative Services on Municipal Websites vs. Google
12:00
Search Engines, AI Assistants, and Everyday Practices in Sports: Behavioral Shifts, Emotional Responses, and Privacy Cynicism among Chilean Football Fans
12:30-13:30Lunch Break
13:30-15:00 Session 4A: Track A: Literacy & Education
13:30
Information Literacy in Conversational Search: Developing a Categorization Scheme for Measuring Information-Literate Behavior in Human-AI Interaction
14:00
Developing Critical Literacy for Entrepreneurial Practice in Digital Environment
14:30
Navigating the Impact of Generative AI on Information Seeking and Learning in Schools: Insights from Swedish Teachers and Librarians
14:45
Information Retrieval Literacy in the Age of Generative AI: Bias, Query Formulation, and Prompt Engineering​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
13:30-15:00 Session 4B: Track B: AI Overviews & Trust
13:30
On the Quality and Impact of Google’s AI Overviews
14:00
Citation Design in AI Overviews: Effects on User Reliance and Source Engagement
14:30
The Option to Search without AI: How Placing Chatbots in SERP Shapes Search Behavior and Activates Information Avoidance
15:00-15:30Coffee Break
15:30-17:00 Session 5A: Track A: Health & High-Stakes Information
15:30
Think-Alouds and Results Assessment: A Study of Health Information Seeking Among People Who Use(d) Drugs
16:00
Visibility by design: Reliability of top domains in search engines for health-related queries
16:30
Generative AI search engines: cognitive authorities on climate change?
15:30-17:00 Session 5B: Track B: Panel Session
15:30
The Infrastructural and Software Challenges of Independent Search Engine Research
17:00-18:00 Session 6: Poster Session & Refreshments
Librarians as Catalysts for Search Literacy Education in Academic Libraries in Developing Countries
Quantifying the interdisciplinary research field of search engine studies
Presenting the SUMA-Kit toolkit
Promoting information literacy, democratic participation, and digital sovereignty: Library workshops for informed, empowered citizens
Searching for Pluralism: Bringing Search Engine Research into conversation with Media Pluralism Monitoring.
Information Access under Epistemic Uncertainty: Learning from Journalism
Enhancing Dataset Discovery in Open Government Data Portals: AI-Generated Metadata for Improved Information Access
Revealing the Hidden Success Factors of Scientific Papers: The Case of Table and Figure References.
Sounding the Horn: Designing Auditory Misinformation Warnings to Foster Critical Engagement with Podcasts
Using Think-Alouds for Search Term Collection for Search Engine Studies
Searching for the Unspeakable? Preliminary Insights from Sexual Health-Related Search Results Across Search Engines in Germany and the United States
19:00-22:00Conference Dinner