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Cristian Norocel

Ov Cristian Norocel

Director of Doctoral Studies | Docent | Senior lecturer

Cristian Norocel

Exploiting digital (il)literacy: : Extreme-right manipulations of the logics of search engines, search practices, and data voids

Author

  • Ov Cristian Norocel
  • Dirk Lewandowski

Summary, in English

In this Medium contribution, we take a closer look at the potential of exploiting the ordinary user’s digital (il)literacy in their search practices. We explore how the logic of search engines, and missing or low-quality data are vulnerable to extreme-right manipulations.

Department/s

  • Department of Gender Studies
  • Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies

Publishing year

2021-09-16

Language

English

Document type

Web publication

Topic

  • Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
  • Information Systems, Social aspects
  • Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalization Studies)

Keywords

  • Sweden
  • Germany
  • digital literacy
  • search engines
  • data void
  • extreme right

Status

Published

Project

  • The Extreme Right Metapolitical Project in the Digital Age
  • In Search of Search and its Engines