Assignment A2 New Media Research Practices WG3, group 10 Group Members: Joey Schreuders Chenjie ZhangHanyu Cheng Yasmine Ben Abdessalem Word Counts: 2750 Introduction The burgeoning use of social media platforms with digital tools and visualization techniques is central to...

Keywords: Digital humanities, Serendipity, Algorithms, Recommender systems Searching vs. Browsing Using search engines, such as Google Scholar, for information gathering and academic writing has become ubiquitous(Van Dijck 2010). It is almost instinctive for students and academics to start writing by...