From: Cornelius Puschmann <cornelius.puschmann@hiig.de>
Sent: August 16, 2017 5:33:35 PM GMT+02:00
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Subject: [netsociety] How significant is algorithmic personalization in searches for political parties and candidates?

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
Französische Straße 9
10117 Berlin, Germany 

Senior Researcher
Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research
Rothenbaumchaussee 36
20148 Hamburg, Germany


Recent paper:
Puschmann, C., & Scheffler, T. (2016). Topic modeling for media and communication research: A short primer (HIIG Discussion Paper Series No. 2016–5). Berlin. Retrieved from http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2836478