Dear colleagues, we're happy that our special issue The State of Google Critique and Intervention is finally out in Big Data & Society!! - just in time for Google's 25y celebrations ;) https://journals.sagepub.com/page/bds/collections/stateofgooglecritiqueandin... For the full list of articles, see below. Best wishes, Astrid, Cristian & Richard -- The journal /Big Data & Society /has published recently the thematic issue (available OA) addressing the topic “The State of Google Critique and Intervention”, which includes an editorial contribution framing the topic, five original research articles, and two invited commentaries: * Mager, Astrid, Norocel, Ov Cristian & Rogers, Richard (2023). Advancing search engine studies: The evolution of Google critique and intervention. /Big Data & Society/ 10(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517231191528 * Rogers, Richard (2023). Algorithmic probing: Prompting offensive Google results and their moderation. /Big Data & Society/ 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517231176228 * Norocel, Ov Cristian & Lewandowski, Dirk (2023) Google, data voids, and the dynamics of the politics of exclusion. /Big Data & Society/ 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517221149099 * Ridgway, Renée (2023). Deleterious consequences: How Google’s original sociotechnical affordances ultimately shaped ‘trusted users’ in surveillance capitalism. /Big Data & Society /10(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517231171058 * Haider, Jutta & Rödl, Malte (2023). Google Search and the creation of ignorance: The case of the climate crisis. /Big Data & Society/ 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517231158997 * Mager, Astrid (2023). European Search? How to counter-imagine and counteract hegemonic search with European search engine projects. /Big Data & Society/ 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517231163173 * Graham, Rosie (2023). The ethical dimensions of Google autocomplete. /Big Data & Society/ 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517231156518 * Rieder, Bernhard (2022). Towards a political economy of technical systems: The case of Google. /Big Data & Society/ 9(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517221135162 -- *Dr. Astrid Mager* Senior Researcher Institut für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung | Institute of Technology Assessment Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften | Austrian Academy of Sciences Bäckerstraße 13, 1010 Wien, Österreich | Vienna, Austria T: +43 1 51581-6598 | astrid.mager@oeaw.ac.at <mailto:vorname.nachname@oeaw.ac.at> | www.oeaw.ac.at/ita <https://www.oeaw.ac.at/ita> ITA-LOGO