Posts By: dennis deicke

Steve Pemberton – „Have your own personal website!“

By dennis deicke, November 14, 2009

Steve Pemberton starts off with explaining the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which proposes a link between langauge and thought. If you do not have a word for something, you cannot think about it, and if you do not think about it, you will probably not invent a word for it. Pemberton applies this idea to the term [...]

Christophe Bruno – The transmutation of language into a global market

By dennis deicke, November 14, 2009

French artist Christophe Bruno introduced the audience into some aspects of his art concerning search engines, espacially Google. In order to explain his latest project Dadameter, he initially presented a selection of projects he has worked on over the last years. His career as an aritst started with the project Epiphanies which Bruno established in [...]

Cees Snoek – Concept based Video Search

By dennis deicke, November 14, 2009

Cees Snoek, member of the Intelligent Systems Lab of the University of Amsterdam, talked about the future of video search. He starts by explaining how the traditional and familiar video search engines work: via text queries. But Snoek points out that an interface working with text queries is insufficient to produce satisfying results. This way [...]

Book Presentation: „Deep Search – The Politics of Search beyond Google“

By dennis deicke, November 13, 2009

Konrad Becker, co-founder of the World-Information Institute, used the occasion to present the book „Deep Search – The Politics of Search beyond Google“.  He states that it was the editors‘ objective to create a book about searching which does not focus on Google because the concentration on the company from Mountain View, California restricts the [...]

David Gugerli – “A dead body in a CSI show is a database full of traces”

By dennis deicke, November 13, 2009

Swiss historian of technology David Gugerli talked about the culture of the serach society during his speech at the Society of the Query. Gugerli emphasizes how searching has become a crucial part in every part of society. The author of “Search Engines. The World as a database” (review here) exemplifies this by mentioning the U.S. [...]
In The Google Trap – The Uncontrolled Global Power In...

Google Unleashed – The new global power?

By dennis deicke, July 1, 2009

In The Google Trap – The Uncontrolled Global Power In The Internet Gerald Reischl describes the growing influence of Google due its monopoly in the digital environment. He calls for the reader to question the objectives of Google’s founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Reischl comes up with some interesting facts and aspects that reveal [...]
Review of Susanne Gaschke , Klick – Strategien gegen die...

Neoliberal Digitalism?

By dennis deicke, June 25, 2009

Review of Susanne Gaschke , Klick – Strategien gegen die digitale Verdummung. Herder, Freiburg: 2009. Susanne Gaschke‘s book Klick – Strategies Against Digital Stultification describes how the increasing prevalence of the internet and new media influences the culture of knowledge and education. She criticizes an infinite optimism of media, politics and science towards this phenomenon and [...]
Review of Stefan Weber, Das Google-Copy-Paste-Syndrome: Wie Netzplagiate Ausbildung und...

Brainless Text Culture and Mickey Mouse Science

By dennis deicke, June 19, 2009

Review of Stefan Weber, 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 Weber states that the soaring spread of the new [...]
The SuMa-eV and the German Association of Internet Portals (BDIP) will...

SuMa Awards 2009

By dennis deicke, June 18, 2009

The SuMa-eV and the German Association of Internet Portals (BDIP) will award the SuMa Awards 2009, that have been established in 2007. It is their aim to question the role of search engines as the gatekeepers to information in our modern society. The awards address all members of society: artists, scientists, journalists, parents, teachers – everyone who [...]
Review of Gugerli, D. (2009). Suchmaschinen. Die Welt als Datenbank....

A New View On Old Search Engines

By dennis deicke, June 16, 2009

Review of Gugerli, D. (2009). Suchmaschinen. Die Welt als Datenbank. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp. In his book Search Engines, The World as a Database (Suchmaschinen, Die Welt als Datenbank) the Swiss historian of technology David Gugerli describes the forerunners of Internet search engines in the second half of the 20th century exemplified by four different case studies. [...]