Shir Weinbrand
Biographic Data
| ID | 8959499 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shir Weinbrand |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shir |
| FAMILY NAME | Weinbrand |
| SIGNATURE | WEINBRAND S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queensland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-6935-0812 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Searching for the truth? search engines and their AI affordances’ responses to conspiratorial search practices
Search engines are a common pathway to conspiracy theories, and producers of conspiratorial narratives actively encourage users to search for particular terms. Understanding how search engines respond to different information-seeking practices is therefore essential for explaining the dynamics of online conspiracy theories. Existing audits of search engines rarely account for systematic variation in query formulation arising from users’ differing…
A search changer
Google’s AI Overviews (AIOs) − AI-generated summaries − mark a shift from information retrieval to AI-driven curation, raising underexplored questions about political and news exposure and algorithmic gatekeeping. This study presents the first systematic mapping of AIOs in these domains, examining their presence on desktop ( RQ1a ) and mobile ( RQ1b ) and their relationship to query characteristics ( RQ2a , RQ2b ). Using interface and algorithm a…
Framing the future of search
This study investigates how Google’s AI Overviews (AIOs) – a major shift in the search engine landscape – are discursively framed by three key actors: Google, tech journalists, and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) marketers. Drawing on platform studies and discourse theory, we combine Leximancer concept mapping with Critical Discourse Analysis to examine how these stakeholders construct, legitimise, and contest the meaning of AIOs across a broad …
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Searching for the truth? search engines and their AI affordances’ responses to conspiratorial search practices
Search engines are a common pathway to conspiracy theories, and producers of conspiratorial narratives actively encourage users to search for particular terms. Understanding how search engines respond to different information-seeking practices is therefore essential for explaining the dynamics of online conspiracy theories. Existing audits of search engines rarely account for systematic variation in query formulation arising from users’ differing…
A search changer
Google’s AI Overviews (AIOs) − AI-generated summaries − mark a shift from information retrieval to AI-driven curation, raising underexplored questions about political and news exposure and algorithmic gatekeeping. This study presents the first systematic mapping of AIOs in these domains, examining their presence on desktop ( RQ1a ) and mobile ( RQ1b ) and their relationship to query characteristics ( RQ2a , RQ2b ). Using interface and algorithm a…
Framing the future of search
This study investigates how Google’s AI Overviews (AIOs) – a major shift in the search engine landscape – are discursively framed by three key actors: Google, tech journalists, and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) marketers. Drawing on platform studies and discourse theory, we combine Leximancer concept mapping with Critical Discourse Analysis to examine how these stakeholders construct, legitimise, and contest the meaning of AIOs across a broad …
Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (2 works) · Accountability (1 work) · Audit (1 work) · Computational and Text Analysis Methods (1 work) · CONTEST (1 work) · Critical discourse analysis (1 work) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (1 work) · Digital Education and Society (1 work) · Discourse analysis (1 work) · Frame analysis (1 work)