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Beyond ‘auto-complete search forms’: Notes on the reaction to ‘Why do white people have thin lips?’
As Paul Baker reported yesterday, a paper that we co-authored entitled “‘Why do white people have thin lips?’ Google and the perpetuation of stereotypes via auto-complete search forms” (published 2013 in Critical Discourse Studies 10:2) has recently been garnering some media attention, being cited in the Mail Online and the 18 May 2013 print issue of The…
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In the press: Google and the perpetuation of stereotypes
The findings of a paper published by myself and Amanda Potts on the implications of Google’s auto-complete search function have been reported in Mail Online and The Telegraph (18 May 2013). The paper examined what happens when the beginnings of questions about different identity groups are entered into Google’s search form. For example, typing “why…
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