4 papers
Invisible in Search? Auditing Aesthetic Bias in the Visual Representation of Holocaust Victims on Google
Mykola Makhortykh, Tobias Rohrbach, Maryna Sydorova
Information retrieval systems, such as search engines, increasingly shape the representation of the past and present states of social reality. Despite their importance, these syste…
Campaigning through the lens of Google: A large-scale algorithm audit of Google searches in the run-up to the Swiss Federal Elections 2023
Tobias Rohrbach, Mykola Makhortykh, Maryna Sydorova
Search engines like Google have become major sources of information for voters during election campaigns. To assess potential biases across candidates' gender and partisan identiti…
A Matter of Mindset? Features and Processes of Newsroom-based Corporate Communication in Times of Artificial Intelligence
Tobias Rohrbach, Mykola Makhortykh
Many companies adopt the corporate newsroom model to streamline their corporate communication. This article addresses why and how corporate newsrooms transform corporate communicat…
Finding the white male: The prevalence and consequences of algorithmic gender and race bias in political Google searches
Tobias Rohrbach, Mykola Makhortykh, Maryna Sydorova
Search engines like Google have become major information gatekeepers that use artificial intelligence (AI) to determine who and what voters find when searching for political inform…