In “Google’s China Problem (and China’s Google Problem),” Clive Thompson...

Googlized Censorship Research

By marijn de vries hoogerwerff, September 21, 2009

In “Google’s China Problem (and China’s Google Problem),” Clive Thompson describes the difficult task set for search engine companies operating within China, where they are required to know what to block but are not given blacklists or clearly defined guidelines by the Chinese government. Thompson explains that Google.cn has solved this problem by setting up [...]

Bron: http://www.techcrunch.com/ Google CEO Eric Schmidt On The Future Of...

Connect It Straight To Your Brain

By margreet riphagen, September 7, 2009

Bron: http://www.techcrunch.com/ Google CEO Eric Schmidt On The Future Of Search: “Connect It Straight To Your Brain” by Michael Arrington This is Part 2 of my series of posts summarizing a fascinating recent hour-long one on one interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Early in the interview I asked Schmidt about the future of search. [...]

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. [...]

Society of the Query conference: 13 – 14 November, Trouw...

Society of the Query, stop searching start questioning

By admin, April 23, 2009

Society of the Query conference: 13 – 14 November, Trouw Amsterdam in Amsterdam With the Society of the Query conference –stop searching, start questioning-, the Institute of Network Cultures aims to critically reflect on the information society and the dominant role of the search engine in our culture. What does the dependency on the engine [...]