SEASON 2026
Book of Abstracts
Abstracts of accepted contributions to SEASON 2026, organized by session.
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Long PresentationElections in the Age of Algorithms: Evidence of Political Bias in Search Engines and Large Language Models
Long PresentationSemantic Multi-Cluster Coverage and LLM Citation Frequency: A Controlled Generative Engine Optimization Experiment
Long PresentationInformation Literacy in Conversational Search: Developing a Categorization Scheme for Measuring Information-Literate Behavior in Human-AI Interaction
Long PresentationRestricted (Over)view: Audit of Google's and Bing's AI summaries in the context of Swiss popular votes
Long PresentationHacking the "wicked problems" of search: A hackathon as a collaborative approach towards capturing query variability
Long PresentationDeveloping Critical Literacy for Entrepreneurial Search Practices in Digital Environments
Long PresentationOn the Quality and Impact of Google's AI Overviews
Long PresentationEmancipatory IR: Towards Critical Theories and Practices
Long PresentationMethod Impossible? A Reflection on Frangibility of Methodologies and Infrastructures for Search Engine Research
Long PresentationUsing generative AI instead of search engines? Comparison and implications in the context of five state elections in Germany
Long PresentationChatbot rodeo: a comparative interface of GPT responses exploring context windows and Rogerian psychoanalysis
Long PresentationResponsible Consumption as an Information and Communication Problem for Search Engines
Long PresentationVisibility by design: Reliability of top domains in search engines for health-related queries
Long PresentationThink-Alouds and Results Assessment: A Study of Health Information Seeking Among People Who Use(d) Drugs
Short PresentationMultilingual across multiple platforms: researching the role of language in the everyday
Short PresentationChatbot creep: Generative AI in the everyday information practices of young adults
Short PresentationSearch Engines, AI Assistants, and Everyday Practices in Sports: Behavioral Shifts, Emotional Responses, and Privacy Cynicism among Chilean Football Fans
Short PresentationVisual Cues and Trust in AI-Generated Search Results: An Eye-Tracking Study on Google AI Overviews
Short PresentationHello Donauwörth, I'm looking for…: Searching for Administrative Services on Municipal Websites vs. Google
Short PresentationEmerging frictions: visual generative AI and the prompting practices of trans and nonbinary people
Short PresentationUnder a new archival umbrella – the investment in a national search engine and its implications for the use of archives
Short PresentationComparing Chat and Search for Engaging with News Topics
Short PresentationSynchronous and Sequential Modes of SERP-based Relevance Evaluation
Short PresentationWill AI Overviews Reshape Media SEO Strategies? A Longitudinal Analysis of Query Segments and Search Traffic Changes
Short PresentationGenerative AI search engines: cognitive authorities on climate change?
Short PresentationNavigating the Impact of Generative AI on Information Seeking and Learning in Schools: Insights from Swedish Teachers and Librarians
Short PresentationHow Users Prompt Generative Search Engines for News and Political Information: An Empirical Taxonomy
Interactive SessionIntroducing Open and Reproducible Web Search for the Social Sciences
Interactive SessionConducting Search Data Related Studies with the Result Assessment Tool (RAT)
Interactive SessionThe Infrastructural and Software Challenges of Independent Search Engine Research
SEASON 2026 · Search Engines and Society Network · HAW Hamburg