[Air-L] How significant is algorithmic personalization in searches for political parties and candidates?

[Cornelius Puschmann]

Dear colleagues,

apologies for crossposting. I want to point out a preliminary analysis of
algorithmic personalization in search results related to the upcoming
German national elections that may be relevant to some among you:
https://aps.hans-bredow-institut.de/personalization-google/

If you want to have a look at the data:
https://datenspende.algorithmwatch.org/en/index.html
and
https://datenspende.algorithmwatch.org/data.html

Feedback is of course very welcome.

All best,

Cornelius

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Dr. Cornelius Puschmann
Research Associate
Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
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Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research
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Puschmann, C., & Scheffler, T. (2016). Topic modeling for media and
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