Digital Dominance: The Power of Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple
«Across the globe, Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple” have accumulated power in ways that existing regulatory and intellectual frameworks struggle to comprehend. A consensus is emerging that the power of these new digital monopolies is unprecedented and that it has important implications for journalism, politics, and society.» ViSmedia team member Nicholas Diakopoulos is cowriter of chapter 13. «I Vote For—How Search Informs Our Choice of Candidate»
Chapter 13: I Vote For - How Search Informs Our Choice of Candidate
By Nicholas Diakopoulos, Daniel Trielli, Jennifer Stark and Sean Mussenden
Search engines such as Google mediate a substantial amount of humanattention, acting as algorithmic gatekeepers and curators as peopleseek and navigate news and information online. A 2014 survey found that51% of American respondents got news in the last week via a search engine (Media Insight Project 2014), most likely with either Google or Bing, whichtogether represent a practical duopoly, dominating about 86% of the USmarket for desktop search (“Rankings—comScore, Inc” 2017). Yet, as pro-prietary systems, little is known about search engine information biasesand how they may be shaping the salience and quality of users’ informa-tion exposure. is is of particular importance in considering how votersbecome informed during elections. e primary focus of this chapter is tobegin to illuminate the multifaceted roles that Google’s search technologieshave played in algorithmic information curation in the 2016 US elections.
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Moore, Martin, et.al. 2018. Digital Dominance: The Power of Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple. New York, Oxford University Press