Posts Tagged: theory

OUT NOW! Urban Screens Reader

By sabine, December 15, 2009

The Urban Screens Reader is the first book to focus entirely on the topic of urban screens. In assembling contributions from a range of leading theorists, in conjunction with a series of case studies dealing with artists’ projects and screen operators’ and curators’ experiences, the reader offers a rich resource for those interested in the [...]
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 [...]
As the INC is preparing for a conference on search...

Search Engine Theory Book Reviews

By sabine, June 17, 2009

As the INC is preparing for a conference on search engines, titled The Society of the Query, research intern Dennis Deicke is delving deep into search engine theory. His book reviews can be read on the preliminary conference site www.networkcultures.org/query. Dennis has published his first review, which covers David Gugerli’s Suchmaschinen, Die Welt als Datenbank. [...]