SEASON2026: SEASON 2026: THE SEARCH ENGINES AND SOCIETY CONFERENCE
PROGRAM FOR WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16TH
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09:00-10:00 Session 7: Keynote: Katrin Weller
09:00
From Regulation to Research: Navigating the Digital Services Act’s Article 40 in Search Studies
10:30-12:30 Session 8A: Track A: AI answers, podcasts & behaviour
10:30
Visual Cues and Trust in AI-Generated Search Results: An Eye-Tracking Study on Google AI Overviews
10:45
Comparing Chat and Search for Engaging with News Topics
11:00
How Users Prompt Generative Search Engines for News and Political Information: An Empirical Taxonomy
11:15
Beyond Ranking Bias: Synchronous and Sequential Modes of SERP-based Relevance Assessment
10:30-12:30 Session 8B: Track B: Methods & Infrastructure
10:30
Hacking the “wicked problems” of search: A hackathon as a collaborative approach towards capturing query variability
11:00
Method Impossible? A Reflection On ​​Frangibility Of Methodologies And Infrastructures For Search Engine Research
11:30
The Infrastructures of Visual Memory
11:45
Are we being framed? Using integrative framing analysis to audit generative search engine results
12:00
Under a new archival umbrella – the investment on a national search engine and its implications for the societal role of archives
12:30-13:30Lunch Break
13:30-15:30 Session 9A: Track A: SEO, GEO & Visibility
13:30
Modeling the Impact of Search Engine Marketing on User Knowledge Gain
14:00
Semantic Multi-Cluster Coverage and LLM Citation Frequency: A Controlled Generative Engine Optimization Experiment
14:30
Will AI Overviews Reshape Media SEO Strategies? A Longitudinal Analysis of Query Segments and Search Traffic Changes
13:30-15:30 Session 9B: Track B: Critical & theoretical perspectives
13:30
Emancipatory Information Retrieval: Towards Critical IR Theories and Practices
14:00
Chatbot rodeo: a comparative interface of GPT responses exploring context windows and Rogerian psychoanalysis
14:30
Responsible Consumption as an Information and Communication Problem for Search Engines
15:00
Search Engines and Generative AI in the Cultural Imaginary