Abyss or Shelter? On the Relevance of Web Search Engines’ Search Results When People Google for Suicide
@article{Haim2017AbyssOS, title={Abyss or Shelter? On the Relevance of Web Search Engines’ Search Results When People Google for Suicide}, author={Mario Haim and F. Arendt and S. Scherr}, journal={Health Communication}, year={2017}, volume={32}, pages={253 - 258} }
ABSTRACT Despite evidence that suicide rates can increase after suicides are widely reported in the media, appropriate depictions of suicide in the media can help people to overcome suicidal crises and can thus elicit preventive effects. We argue on the level of individual media users that a similar ambivalence can be postulated for search results on online suicide-related search queries. Importantly, the filter bubble hypothesis (Pariser, 2011) states that search results are biased by… Expand
Topics from this paper
24 Citations
Investigating Google's suicide-prevention efforts in celebrity suicides using agent-based testing: A cross-national study in four European countries.
- Psychology, Medicine
- Social science & medicine
- 2020
- 3
The Impact of a Highly Publicized Celebrity Suicide on Suicide-Related Online Information Seeking
- Psychology, Medicine
- Crisis
- 2017
- 11
Optimizing Online Suicide Prevention: A Search Engine-Based Tailored Approach
- Computer Science, Medicine
- Health communication
- 2017
- 19
Equal access to online information? Google’s suicide-prevention disparities may amplify a global digital divide
- Computer Science
- New Media Soc.
- 2019
- 10
Do effects of copycat suicides vary with the reasons for celebrity suicides reported by the media?
- Psychology
- 2020
- 1
Appropriate Targets for Search Advertising as Part of Online Gatekeeping for Suicide Prevention
- Medicine
- Crisis
- 2018
- 1
Fake News or Weak Science? Visibility and Characterization of Antivaccine Webpages Returned by Google in Different Languages and Countries
- Psychology, Medicine
- Front. Immunol.
- 2018
- 19
- PDF
Agent-based Testing: An Automated Approach toward Artificial Reactions to Human Behavior
- Computer Science
- 2020
- Highly Influenced
Online Information on Antioxidants: Information Quality Indicators, Commercial Interests, and Ranking by Google
- Medicine
- Front. Public Health
- 2017
- 13
- PDF
References
SHOWING 1-10 OF 26 REFERENCES
Googling suicide: surfing for suicide information on the Internet.
- Psychology, Medicine
- The Journal of clinical psychiatry
- 2008
- 111
Accessing Suicide-Related Information on the Internet: A Retrospective Observational Study of Search Behavior
- Medicine
- Journal of medical Internet research
- 2013
- 44
Hyperlinked suicide: assessing the prominence and accessibility of suicide websites.
- Engineering, Medicine
- Crisis
- 2011
- 36
Using google searches on the internet to monitor suicidal behavior.
- Medicine
- Journal of affective disorders
- 2013
- 97
Role of media reports in completed and prevented suicide: Werther v. Papageno effects.
- Psychology, Medicine
- The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science
- 2010
- 325
- Highly Influential
- PDF
The Media and Suicide
- Medicine
- Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry
- 2005
- 64
Suicide in the media: a quantitative review of studies based on non-fictional stories.
- Psychology, Medicine
- Suicide & life-threatening behavior
- 2005
- 237
- PDF
The effects of a celebrity suicide on suicide rates in Hong Kong
- Medicine
- Journal of Affective Disorders
- 2006
- 96