ESUPOL – Einfluss von SUchmaschinen auf die POLitische Meinungsbildung
Philipp Schaer, TH Köln, and Sven-Oliver Prokosch, Universität zu Köln, receive three years funding for research on the influence of search engines on political opinion formation.
The Ministry of Culture and Science of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia has approved funding for a state-wide graduate institute on "Digital Societies". Philipp Schaer (Professor for Information Retrieval at TH Köln, University of Applied Sciences) and Sven-Oliver Proksch (Cologne Center for Comparative Politics) will conduct an interdisciplinary project on the influence of search engines on political opinion formation. The project will collect large amounts of web data from various search engines and analyze them using natural language processing and investigate the effects on opinion formation using laboratory experiments.
At a Glance
| Category | Description |
|---|---|
| Research project | ESUPOL – Einfluss von SUchmaschinen auf die POLitische Meinungsbildung (Influence of Search Engines on Political Opinion Forming) |
| Administration | Prof. Dr. Philipp Schaer Staff page |
| Faculty | Faculty of Information and Communication Sciences More |
| Institute |
Institute of Information Management Institute of Information Science |
| Persons involved | Malte Bonart Staff page |
| Partners | University of Cologne - Cologne Center for Comparative Politics (Prof. Dr. Sven-Oliver Proksch) More |
| Sponsors | Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia More |
| Duration | 2018 - 2021 |
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