I see facebook just rolled out this new feature to me; now when I add a status update, I can indicate “looking for” with a pretty extensive list of options (presumably populated from common ‘other’ insertions). The integration of Bing…
Personalisation – Reinforcing a narrow perspective One concern with search personalisation and similar tools is that personalisation narrows perspectives on results, falling into the trap of confirmation bias – users are 1) more likely to search for affirming content and…
Algorithms and big data are provocative right? Is Google personalisation a risk to our epistemic autonomy? Are recommender systems epistemically problematic in general? Is an over reliance on search engines to know what we want – even if we don’t…
In my work we might look at implementing pragmatic lessons on the web in two ways: 1) the technical solution seeks to represent the data ‘pragmatically’ somehow; 2) the user solution seeks to scaffold the user to understand the pragmatic…
Following on from my ‘Evaluating Google as an Epistemic Tool’ post I’m just exploring the Open University’s RISE and the related OpenURL projects both of which use log data on academic searches to provide users with article and journal level…
I’ve just read an article which explicitly considers the evaluation of search engines with respect to their epistemic functions under a social epistemological perspective. There’s a pre-print available http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/teaching_staff/simpson/simpson_index.html and the citation is: Evaluating Google as an Epistemic Tool, Metaphilosophy…
