SEASON 2025 (Search Engines and Society): Registration Now Open (Hamburg, 24-25 Sept) - Early Bird until 1 August
Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the inaugural SEASON conference (Search Engines and Society Network), taking place 24-25 September 2025 at HAW Hamburg. SEASON is a new international forum for researchers, practitioners, and activists critically engaging with the roles of search engines and algorithmic technologies in society. It aims to build community across disciplines and create space for shared reflection on search as both infrastructure and cultural force. The two-day program features: * 2 Keynotes * 20 Long Presentations * 10 Short Presentations * 17 Posters * 2 Interactive Sessions Topics include: • Search engine bias and algorithmic visibility • Generative AI in search • Information disorders and disinformation • Regulation, policy, and platformisation • Everyday search practices and infrastructures • Critical and creative approaches to search • …and much more. Early bird registration (until 1 August): * Regular: €100 * Student: €30 (From 2 August: €150 / €50) Register for SEASON 2025 here: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=season2025 More about SEASON: https://searchenginesandsociety.net<https://searchenginesandsociety.net/> We warmly invite you to join us in Hamburg and be part of the growing SEASON community. With best regards, The SEASON 2025 Organizing Team -- Prof. Dr. Dirk Lewandowski Professor (Information Research & Information Retrieval) Hamburg University of Applied Sciences T +49 40 428 75-3621 dirk.lewandowski@haw-hamburg.de HOCHSCHULE FÜR ANGEWANDTE WISSENSCHAFTEN HAMBURG Fakultät Design, Media und Information Department of Information, Media and Communication Finkenau 35 / 22081 Hamburg / Germany https://www.searchstudies.org/dirk Book a meeting: https://app.usemotion.com/meet/dirk-lewandowski/sprechstunde
Dear all I hope you are having a great week. I am looking for a post-doc for my ERC Consolidator. Please see below, consider applying, and forward this call below to your contacts, students, listserves, social media, etc.. The position is for 3 or four years, flexible start and location, and with a high salary. Thank you so much in advance! *** Competition for a Postdoc for the ERC research project (Computer Science, Computational Social Science / deadline: 15 Sept 2025) https://cess.idub.uw.edu.pl/en/2025/07/competition-for-a-postdoc-for-the-erc... Are you an expert in computational social science or computer science? Do you specialize in ML or LLMs, software development, and innovative online experiments? Are you interested in social media, their recommendation algorithms, polarization, and misinformation? We invite applications for the position of a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre of Excellence in Social Sciences, University of Warsaw for the ERC NEWSUSE project (PI Magdalena Wojcieszak). The project explores how to incentivize exposure to quality and verified political news and information online to minimize polarization, misinformation, extremism, etc. The project includes experiments on mock platforms, social media field experiments, and computer and data science methods. The project may also entail algorithmic audits of social media platforms using automated sock puppets and prompt engineering. You will shape the specific questions and designs, and to envision and implement innovative technological solutions to increase the external validity of these designs. --
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Magdalena E Wojcieszak