Posts By: tjerk timan

Antoine Isaac: Semantic Search for Europeana

By tjerk timan, November 17, 2009

Thanks for the opportunity to talk. I work at the VU and I am talking about the project Europeana. This is the result of a teamwork of the University, I am just presenting it. Introduction What is Europeana? It is a portal which that want to interconnect museum archives. Access to digital content. Currently there [...]

Discussion session 2: Googlization

By tjerk timan, November 16, 2009

With: Siva Vaidhyanathan, Martin Feuz  and Esther Weltevrede Moderated by Andrew Keen. Moderator: Why does no one talk about money? Vaidhyanathan: Google only loses money. They have an interest to keeping people interacting with the Web. As long as you are interacting with the web, they can track you via cookies and that puts more [...]

Esther Weltevrede: “The Globalisation Machine. Reinterpreting engine results”

By tjerk timan, November 16, 2009

Lecture by Esther Weltevrede As a follow up on Martin’s talk, I am going to present some empirical works. These project concern comparing engine results and customization of location. The aim of this study is: 1) Building on Googlization theory and search engine critique. 2) Empirical study. Reinterpreting Google for localization studies. The key question [...]

Alessandro Ludovico: “The Google paradigm: for the final dictator it is never enough”

By tjerk timan, November 14, 2009

Introduction by Sabine Niederer Alessandro Ludovico – fresh issue of neural is out, with Yesman on the cover, so promising. Alessandro is a media researcher, media critic, and also a new media artist. He is famous by the work “Google will eat itself”. Also known for the  “Amazon Noir” project. Alessandro Thanks a lot for [...]