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๐Ÿ”ฎ VibeSearch

Great vibes only... unless you're researching bad vibes, that's cool too! ๐ŸŒŸ

VibeSearch is a vibe-y search engine for academic articles. It enables you to search using vector search, as well as as 'traditional' and keyword-based search. The idea is that it works only in some journals from the New Media field (list below). It's a prototype.

Vibe-coded by Gabriel Pereira.

Available Journals

Journal Articles
M/C Journal 1688
Information & Culture: A Journal of History 417
Science, Technology and Society 784
Platforms & Society 42
Journal of Digital History 25
International journal of communication 3208
Internet Histories 256
Internet Policy Review 402
Information, Communication & Society 2887
The Information Society 1391
Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 401
Digital Studies/Le champ numรฉrique 360
Media, Culture & Society 3374
Digital Culture & Society 253
AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research 1180
Theory, Culture & Society 2832
AI & SOCIETY 2984
Big Data & Society 843
The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory 66
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 1791
Digital Journalism 1087
Culture machine 316
Surveillance & Society 1092
First Monday 2701
Media Theory 203
Dialogues on Digital Society 57
New Media & Society 3531
Social Media + Society 1403
Journal of Digital Social Research 152
Communication, Culture & Critique 457
Limn 34
Television & New Media 1165
Critical AI 57
Global Media and Communication 605
Digital Creativity 764
Media International Australia 3253
Digital humanities quarterly 299
The Fibreculture Journal 48
Journal of Information Technology 1834
Mobile Media & Communication 469
Electronic book review 35
Total Articles 44746

Search Types

๐Ÿ”ฎ Vibe Search (Semantic)

The mystic AI-powered search using ChromaDB and the Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-s model. It's like having a psychic librarian who understands the ~energy~ of your search. When you ask about "digital art communities", it'll find papers about "online creative collectives" because it gets the vibe, not just the words.

๐Ÿ“š Traditional Search

The practical magic approach! It counts word matches but with a sprinkle of special sauce:

  • Title matches get double points (because titles are important, duh!)
  • Abstract matches get regular points
  • If all your search words appear together? Bonus point! โœจ

Like a well-balanced crystal collection - not too woo-woo, not too rigid.

๐Ÿ” Keyword Search

The "just the facts" option for when you're feeling no-nonsense. No AI magic, no special scoring - just straight-up word matching. Perfect for those Mercury-in-retrograde moments when you need things to be exactly what they say they are.

Version 1.1 - Timelines and Journals

  • ๐Ÿ“Š Timeline: Histogram showing publication years. Click bars to filter by year.
  • ๐Ÿ“ Journals: Half-Doughnut chart showing top 10 journals. Click segments to filter by journal.

Inspiration

VibeSearch is inspired by Steve Jankowski's fantastic Keywords for Studying Media, Culture & Information.