Children’s Information – Who Cares? By Maarten Sprenger

By Miriam Rasch, February 13, 2014

‘For children searching the internet is like riding a roller coaster in an amusement park. How to choose one’s own route and get useful hits when searching? How to avoid delay and distraction? How to distinguish between nonsense and reliable resources? It’s hard for adults, but even harder for children.’ Children’s Information – Who Cares? [...]

INC speaks about Out of Ink and Society of the Query 2 at the Brown Bag Lunch

By serenawestra, February 13, 2013

On Wednesday January 23 2013 INC’s Francesca Coluzzi and René König presented at the Brown Bag Lunch sessions of the Hogeschool van Amsterdam. Graphic Designer and visual artist Francesca Coluzzi from Italy worked on the Out of Ink project for the last 5 months as a research intern at the Institute of Network Cultures. In [...]

Researching search – notes from an INC intern

By renekoenig, September 10, 2012

A few years ago, I looked with envy on INC´s Society of the Query initiative. When I stumbled upon it, it was already too late for me: The Society of the Query conference was over and I already dedicated my diploma thesis to Wikipedia. Not that I would have regretted this decision – I think [...]

INC’s research intern Dennis Deicke wrote his second book review,...

Brainless Text Culture and Mickey Mouse Science

By sabine, June 21, 2009

INC’s research intern Dennis Deicke wrote his second book review, of Stefan Weber’s Das Google-Copy-Paste-Syndrome: Wie Netzplagiate Ausbildung und Wissen gefährden. Heise Verlag, Hannover: 2009. The Google-Copy-Paste-Syndrome: How Web-Plagiarism endangers Education and Knowledge, written by Stefan Weber, deals with the influence of the ever-increasing internet use on the prevalent culture of knowledge. Austrian media scholar [...]