no code implementations • 28 Mar 2023 • Queenie Luo, Michael J. Puett, Michael D. Smith
Contrary to Google Search's mission of delivering information from "many angles so you can form your own understanding of the world," we find that Google and its most prominent returned results - Wikipedia and YouTube - simply reflect a narrow set of culturally dominant views tied to the search language for complex topics like "Buddhism," "Liberalism," "colonization," "Iran" and "America."
no code implementations • 1 Jun 2020 • Emaad Manzoor, George H. Chen, Dokyun Lee, Michael D. Smith
Deliberation among individuals online plays a key role in shaping the opinions that drive votes, purchases, donations and other critical offline behavior.