ELECTION QUESTIONS: DOES OUR SEARCH BEHAVIOUR LEAD TO POLARISATION?

Shenja van der Graaf

Press/Media: Research

Description

We Google everything: the FC Twente match schedule, the release date of GTA 6, or a recipe for pasta carbonara. And as the elections draw nearer, we also look up party manifestos, voting guides and fact checks of campaign promises. Our search for information usually begins with a search engine. But what if that very search behaviour fuels division instead of understanding?

Period	28 Oct 2025

Media contributions

Title	ELECTION QUESTIONS: DOES OUR SEARCH BEHAVIOUR LEAD TO POLARISATION?
Media name/outlet	UT Science Stories
Country/Territory	Netherlands
Date	28/10/25
Description	We Google everything: the FC Twente match schedule, the release date of GTA 6, or a recipe for pasta carbonara. And as the elections draw nearer, we also look up party manifestos, voting guides and fact checks of campaign promises. Our search for information usually begins with a search engine. But what if that very search behaviour fuels division instead of understanding?
Producer/Author	Carlijn van den Heuvel
URL	https://www.utwente.nl/en/stories/science/650388/election-questions-does-our-search-behaviour-lead-to-polarisation/?tag=digitalisation
Persons	Shenja van der Graaf

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