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My colleague Jevin West has a research project focused on Echo Chambers of Science - which is very relevant to this thread.
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Some early results of this work can be found here <a href="https://jevinwest.org/papers/Kim2017asa.pdf" id="LPNoLP261271">
https://jevinwest.org/papers/Kim2017asa.pdf</a></div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, October 18, 2019 11:30 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Falk Huettmann <fhuettmann@alaska.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> BOULTON Geoffrey <Geoff.Boulton@ed.ac.uk>; CODATA International <codata-international@lists.codata.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [CODATA-international] role of search engines and their companies Re: Digital Feudalism</font>
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<div dir="ltr">Thanks, this is an important issue, we should consider the big role that Google played to open and help most of digital related issues, I agree that correct words and sentences for searching play an important role.
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<div>Ahmad.</div>
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<span style="font-size:8pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ahmad Mahdavi, professor emeritus at University of Tehran,</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:8pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Focal point for Mountain Partnership in the University of Tehran,</span></p>
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Phone: +98-21-76281966 --- Mobile: +98-912-0762812.</span></p>
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<div dir="ltr" class="x_gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 10:15 PM Falk Huettmann <<a href="mailto:fhuettmann@alaska.edu">fhuettmann@alaska.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>I think if data, science & sustainability do matter,</div>
<div>then SEARCH ENGINES play a major role and should be considered in this wider discussion (namely re. Digital Feudalism).</div>
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<div>By showing a 'wrong' search result, one informs the WWW wrongly, and thus the world.</div>
<div>It's a way to withhold the truth and the facts and/or to create a bias and agenda.</div>
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<div>Many examples can be found.</div>
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<div>For search engines and their owners, just see GOOGLE, GOOGLE EARTH or MICROSOFT.</div>
<div>Some are known to support climate change denial etc.</div>
<div>Facebook is the other real-world example. Mark hinted at it in his last email.</div>
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<div>Many smaller search engines like YAHOO or BING bring in additional problems</div>
<div>(I probably find them quite trashy and they can provide such an outcome).</div>
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<div>Beyond the actual search engines, eventually it comes home to the ownership</div>
<div>of those search engine companies and how structured and which nation hosts them</div>
<div>for legislation.</div>
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<div>Just to bring this up; very best</div>
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<div> Falk Huettmann PhD, Professor</div>
<div> Uni of Alaska Fairbanks</div>
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