Abortion Near Me? The Implications of Semantic Media on Accessing Health Information

Tripodi, Francesca Bolla; Dave, Aashka

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“…In the same year a special issue of Social Media and Society appeared under the title "Semantic Media." The majority of contributions in this issue concern, in one way or another, search processes, search engines and address their various implications in how meaning and knowledge emerge in society (Dobreski et al, 2023;Giomelakis, 2023;Jobin, 2023;Tripodi & Dave, 2023).…”

Section: Renewed Interest In Search Engine Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A recently published special issue of Big Data and Society (Mager et al, 2023) focuses on “The State of Google Critique and Intervention.” The topics covered in this special issue will sound familiar to information science researchers: Methods for investigating offensive search results (Rogers, 2023), data voids and racism (Norocel & Lewandowski, 2023), how Google creates ignorances on the climate crisis (Haider & Rödl, 2023), ethical concerns associated with Google's auto‐complete function (Graham, 2023b), European alternatives to Google (Mager, 2023), as well as conceptual development to nuance the critique “big tech” (Rieder, 2022). In the same year a special issue of Social Media and Society (Iliadis & Ford, 2023) appeared under the title “Semantic Media.” The majority of contributions in this issue concern, in one way or another, search processes, search engines and address their various implications in how meaning and knowledge emerge in society (Dobreski et al, 2023; Ford & Iliadis, 2023; Giomelakis, 2023; Jobin, 2023; Tripodi & Dave, 2023).…”

Section: Renewed Interest In Search Engine Researchmentioning

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JASIST Special Issue Editorial: Re‐orienting search engine research in information science

Lewandowski,

Haider,

Sundin

2023

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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General web search engines constitute a fundamental part of today's information infrastructure. They have made it possible to find almost anything on the internet, usually by typing a few keywords into an empty search box, but increasingly also by voice recognition. In fact, search engines are now so integrated into devices and practices that they mostly go unnoticed. They have come to shape our lives as well as the society and culture we live in, and our lives and society also affect these information resources in their turn. We use them in school, for work, in planning our holidays, when searching for products and services and in politics-just to name a few important areas.Given the centrality of general web search engines in how and what we know, and in whose products, services and messages get noticed, it is no surprise that content providers are doing everything they can, using various types of search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing (SEM), to achieve the highest possible rank and thus visibility on search engine result pages (SERP). When we talk about the uses of search engines, it is important to remember that there are other users than the ones we usually think of. Besides so-called end users or searchers, those who want to be found (content producers) are also users of a search engine, but also there are also those who do not want to be found.The search engine landscape is dominated by a few corporations that have divided the global market more or less along geopolitical lines: broadly speaking, Baidu in China, Yandex in Russia and Google in much of the Western world. Microsoft's Bing is often mentioned as the most important competitor to Google, but this search engine has failed to gain significant market shares. In the United States, Bing has a market share of about 6%, and 3% in Europe (Statcounter, 2023). More competition between search engines is often called for, but this is extremely difficult to achieve within the current political and economic system.

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Section: Renewed Interest In Search Engine Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Renewed Interest In Search Engine Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

JASIST Special Issue Editorial: Re‐orienting search engine research in information science

Lewandowski,

Haider,

Sundin

2023

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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My Data, My Choice? Privacy, Commodity Activism, and Big Tech’s Corporatization of Care in the Post-Roe Era

Martin,

Montiel Valle,

Shorey

2024

Social Media + Society

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After the Dobbs decision ended federal abortion protection in the United States, experts raised concerns about digital data collected from people seeking abortions. U.S. technology corporations—Google, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon—were conspicuously silent. Instead, GAMMA (Google, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon) released statements and/or policies surrounding commitments to data privacy seemingly incongruous with surveillance-based business models. We examine GAMMA’s policies, statements, and associated news coverage post-Roe through commodity activism and politics of care. We reveal recurring discourses that cast technical privacy features as sufficiently protective alongside scrupulous data practices by users and that constrain the purview of company responsibility to full-time employees. A focus on responsible data management sidesteps critiques of data collection, framing GAMMA’s policy changes as corporate care but furthering commodification of individual privacy, reproducing the neoliberal subject, and upholding surveillance capitalism.

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Abortion Near Me? The Implications of Semantic Media on Accessing Health Information

Cited by 2 publications

References 43 publications

JASIST Special Issue Editorial: Re‐orienting search engine research in information science

JASIST Special Issue Editorial: Re‐orienting search engine research in information science

My Data, My Choice? Privacy, Commodity Activism, and Big Tech’s Corporatization of Care in the Post-Roe Era

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