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Approaches to Auditing Search Engines for Social Science Research
Anna Couturier
Morgan Currie
Product: SAGE Research Methods: Doing Research Online
Online pub date: July 12, 2022
Discipline: Anthropology, Business and Management, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Communication and Media Studies, Counseling and Psychotherapy, Economics, Education, Geography, Health, History, Marketing, Nursing, Political Science and International Relations, Psychology, Social Policy and Public Policy, Social Work, Sociology
Methods: Multiple-choice questions, Auditing, Algorithms
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529609301
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Search platforms, like Google Search and Bing, act as mediators of knowledge carrying out many of the basic functions that form life and discourse online. These algorithmically mediated platforms determine the how, what, where, and when knowledge is distributed, accessed, and promoted by content producers and the public alike. While the ephemerality of these dynamic digital platforms poses real challenges, emerging methodologies like auditing offer help to social science researchers looking to take them on. Choosing to repurpose search engines for research offers valuable opportunities for generating high-quality qualitative and quantitative evidence in the analysis of the complex questions researchers may wish to tackle in social science research. This guide serves as an introduction to the field of blackbox analysis for social science research and provides an overview of approaches to data auditing of search engines.
Couturier, A., Currie, M. (Ed.), (2022). Approaches to Auditing Search Engines for Social Science Research [How-to Guide]. SAGE Research Methods: Doing Research Online. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529609301
Couturier, Anna, Currie, Morgan, ed. Approaches to Auditing Search Engines for Social Science Research. SAGE Research Methods: Doing Research Online, SAGE Publications, Ltd., 2022. How-to Guide. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529609301.
Couturier, A., Currie, M. ed., 2022. Approaches to Auditing Search Engines for Social Science Research. [How-to Guide]. London: SAGE Publications, Ltd.https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529609301.
Couturier, Anna, Currie, Morgan, editor., Approaches to Auditing Search Engines for Social Science Research SAGE Research Methods: Doing Research Online, London, 2022.How-to Guide, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529609301
Couturier, Anna, Currie, Morgan, ed. Approaches to Auditing Search Engines for Social Science Research How-to Guide. SAGE Research Methods: Doing Research Online. SAGE Publications, Ltd.; 2022. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529609301
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