Black Hat, White Hat: The Ethical Work of Optimization in Web Search Engines

Come to the final research seminar, “Black Hat, White Hat: The Ethical Work of Optimization in Web Search Engines,” hosted by York’s Department of Science & Technology Studies in the Faculty of Science. In this paper, Professor Malte Ziewitz, a Mills Family Faculty Fellow in the Department of Science & Technology Studies (STS) at Cornell University, will explore the practices and politics of optimization in the specific case of web search engines.