Posts By: Liliana Bounegru

Florian Cramer on “Why Semantic Search is Flawed”

By Liliana Bounegru, November 15, 2009

Florian Cramer, head of the Networked Media Master at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, ended the last session of The Society of the Query conference. The Alternative Search 2 session presented a few of the latest web technologies as potential directions for the web and search engine design in the near future: RFDa, which [...]

The Ippolita Collective: Stop Questioning and Start Building!

By Liliana Bounegru, November 14, 2009

The Ippolita Collective brought a humorous and refreshing change of perspective into the attempt to search and formulate solutions for one of the issues addressed by the second session of the Society of the Query conference, namely Digital Civil Rights. They proposed to change the “what” style of questioning associated with positions of domination, as [...]

Teresa Numerico on Cybernetics, Search Engines and Resistance

By Liliana Bounegru, November 13, 2009

Teresa Numerico is a lecturer at the University of Rome, where she teaches history and philosophy of computer science and epistemology of new media. Her presentation brought a historical and philosophy of science perspective into the themes of this conference: web search, search engines and the society of the query. She attempted to see search [...]

Matteo Pasquinelli: Are We Renting our Collective Intelligence to Google?

By Liliana Bounegru, November 13, 2009

Matteo Pasquinelli’s presentation this morning at the Society of the Query was based on his paper, Google’s PageRank Algorithm: A Diagram of Cognitive Capitalism and the Rentier of the Common Intellect. The paper can be downloaded from his website. The essay and presentation of the Italian media theorist and critic focused on an alternative direction [...]