Laura A. Granka
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Media agenda setting and online search traffic: Influences of online and traditional media
American Political Science Association, American Political Science Association (2010)
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This paper addresses the patterns of influence between the news media and the public, by specifically targeting breaking stories, or shocks, to a news system. Specifically, we assess media agenda setting and selective exposure by looking at the relative public attention spans to hard and soft news (as measured by query volume), in comparison with the volume of news coverage (in print, broadcast, and Web content) for these selected news events. We measure the dynamic distribution of issue coverage in the news media, and how this volume of coverage ultimately influences online search traffic. In order to assess sustained interest in a given topic, distributions of query volume and news coverage were fit with Gamma distributions of appropriate parameters. Findings indicate that there are significant differences in the public attention spans for hard and soft news issues, particularly relative to what news coverage might predict. Soft news events produced a slower rate of decline in query volume, matching the slow tapering off of issue coverage found in Web content. Conversely, for hard, substantive news issues, query volume drops off quite quickly, more closely paralleling the distribution of coverage in broadcast news.
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The Politics of Search: A Decade Retrospective.
The Information Society Journal, 26 (2010), pp. 364-374
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In “Shaping theWeb:Why the Politics of Search Engines Matters,”
Introna and Nissenbaum (2000) introduced scholars to the
political, as well as technical, issues central to the development of
online search engines. Since that time, scholars have critically evaluated
the role that search engines play in structuring the scope of
online information access for the rest of society, with an emphasis
on the implications for a democratic and diverseWeb. This article
describes the thought behind search engine regulation, online diversity,
and information bias, and it places these issues within the
context of the technical and societal changes that have occurred
in the online search industry. The author assesses which of the
initial concerns expressed about online search engines remain relevant
today and discusses how technical changes demand a new
approach to measuring online diversity and democracy. The author
concludes with a proposal to direct the research and thought
in online search going forward.
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Eye Monitoring in Online Search
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Matthew Feusner
Lori Lorigo
Passive Eye Monitoring, Springer Verlag, 69121 Heidelberg, Germany (2008), pp. 283-304
Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Ethnography and Selective Visibility in the Technology Sector
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Patrick Larvie
Being Seen: Paradoxes and Practices of (in)Visibility - Conference Proceedings of EPIC 2009, American Antrhopological Association, 2200 Wilson Blvd, Suite 600 • Arlington, VA 22201 (2008), pp. 253-266
Evaluating the accuracy of implicit feedback from clicks and query reformulations in web search
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Thorsten Joachims
Bing Pan
Helene Hembrooke
Filip Radlinski
Geri Gay
ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 25, no 2 (2007), pp. 7
Incorporating Eyetracking into User Studies at Google
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Kerry Rodden
Proceedings of ACM CHI 2006 workshop on Getting a Measure of Satisfaction from Eyetracking in Practice
