http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/query Just another www.networkcultures.org weblog Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:48:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/query/program/extended-program/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Matteo Pasquinelli - Amsterdam, 13. Nov. Society of the Query Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:37:56 +0000 http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/query/?page_id=363#comment-25 [...] The origin of Google’s power and monopoly is to be traced to the invisible algorithm PageRank. The diagram of this technology is proposed here as the most fitting description of the value machine at the core of what is diversely called knowledge economy, attention economy or cognitive capitalism. This essay stresses the need of a political economy of the PageRank algorithm rather than expanding the dominant critique of Google’s monopoly based on the Panopticon model and similar ‘Big Brother’ issues (dataveillance, privacy, political censorship). Extended program and time table here. [...] [...] The origin of Google’s power and monopoly is to be traced to the invisible algorithm PageRank. The diagram of this technology is proposed here as the most fitting description of the value machine at the core of what is diversely called knowledge economy, attention economy or cognitive capitalism. This essay stresses the need of a political economy of the PageRank algorithm rather than expanding the dominant critique of Google’s monopoly based on the Panopticon model and similar ‘Big Brother’ issues (dataveillance, privacy, political censorship). Extended program and time table here. [...]

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