Wijermars, Mariëlle; Urman, Aleksandra; Makhortykh, Mykola (29 May 2022). To Comply, or Not to Comply: Search Engine Censorship and the 2021 Parliamentary Elections in Russia (Unpublished). In: 72nd Annual ICA Conference - "One world, one network?!". Paris, France. 26.05.-30.05.2022.
Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)The paper examines search engine censorship related to the Russian court order summoning Google and Yandex to stop displaying search results for the query ‘Smart Voting’ (the opposition’s tactical voting project) during the 2021 elections. We conduct an agent-based algorithmic audit to empirically test whether the search engines complied with the order and examine different forms of (non)compliance adopted by the companies, before discussing the implications of our findings for platform regulation across political contexts.
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Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Division/Institute: |
03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Institute of Communication and Media Studies (ICMB) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Urman, Aleksandra, Makhortykh, Mykola |
Subjects: |
000 Computer science, knowledge & systems 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 320 Political science |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Mykola Makhortykh |
Date Deposited: |
24 Jun 2022 11:00 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 16:20 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
authoritarianism, information autocracy, search engine, Google, Yandex, algorithms, algorithm audit, censorship |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/170672 |
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