Astrid Mager – Is Small Beautiful? Big Search and its Alternatives

By martaburugorri, November 11, 2013

Short interview with Astrid Mager from network cultures on Vimeo. In the first session Astrid Mager tells us about search engines, pointing out that Google is not the only search engine that is using personal data for commercial interests, or for instance, collaborating with the NSA. She holds that we shouldn’t blame only Google as there are many other [...]

Kylie Jarrett – Search for the Google God: Metaphysics and the Social Imaginary of Search

By martaburugorri, November 11, 2013

Short interview with Kylie Jarrett from network cultures on Vimeo. In this first session of Friday Kylie Jarrett talks about the history of search, going back to metaphysical desires on historical information technologies but focusing as well on Google and contemporary search engines. Kylie highlights two sources of deep importance in the history of search; past practices that are [...]

Simon Knight on the Epistemic Context of Search & Assessment

By Maya Livio, November 11, 2013

Short interview with Simon Knight from network cultures on Vimeo. On day two of the Society of the Query conference, Simon Knight introduced his analysis of the search engine as an epistemic tool by outlining the latest policy changes in the Danish school system. After a recent pilot study (outlined here), Denmark has now rolled [...]

Anton Tantner – Human Search Engines and Intelligence Offices of the Analogue Age

By INC Team, November 11, 2013

Short interview with Anton Tantner from network cultures on Vimeo. Much critique and debate at the 2nd edition of Society of the Query took place around the way that knowledge – a complex, dynamic and essentially cognitive (human) process – is indexed and retrieved via algorithmic identification made possible by software search engines. This cold, [...]

Dirk Lewandowski: Why We Need an Independent Index of the Web

By serenawestra, November 11, 2013

Short interview with Dirk Lewandowski from network cultures on Vimeo. How can we create real alternative search engines? German professor Dirk Lewandowski spoke as third speaker in the session ‘Google Domination’. He argues that we need an independent index of the web. “We don’t need publicly funded search engines. Instead, we need publicly funded search [...]

Rosa Menkman on Resolutions

By katia, November 10, 2013

Short interview with Rosa Menkman from network cultures on Vimeo. For a year, glitch artist and researcher Rosa Menkman has been studying resolutions. She was inspired by the Evil Media Distribution Centre by Graham Harwood (YoHa) and Matthew Fuller (Goldsmiths, University of London) that was presented at Transmediale this year in Berlin. Rosa Menkman’s resolution [...]

Siva Vaidhyanathan on the Intimate Relationship Between State Surveillance and Corporate Dataveillance

By katia, November 10, 2013

Short interview with Siva Vaidhyanathan from network cultures on Vimeo. Society of the Query #2 kicks off with a mind-boggling presentation by Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of The Googlization of Everything. With the steady revelations throughout the summer of 2013 about the United States government’s programs and powers to monitor digital communication, mine metadata, and circumvent [...]

Engin Bozdag – Does Culture Affect Information Diversity?

By Ihab Khiri, November 10, 2013

Short interview with Engin Bozdag from network cultures on Vimeo. Engin Bozdag is a PHD candidate at Delft University of Technology and spoke about his Empirical study of Information Diversity for Dutch and Turkish Twitter users. Engin Bozdag was interested in the information bubble phenomenon; the idea that the information we receive and process is [...]

Isabelle Massu – The Great Family of Man

By vince, November 10, 2013

In her presentation, Isabelle Massu talked about her project, L’Iconopathe, stating that it first spawned two years ago, from her love of photography and archiving. The Iconopathe, which takes the shape of a website, is meant to showcase how photography has changed throughout the last 20 years. It is ‘looking at the people and how [...]

Book Launch: Ippolita – ”The Dark Side of Google”

By Ihab Khiri, November 10, 2013

Short interview with Ippolita from network cultures on Vimeo. During the second Society of the Query conference, the Ippolita collective presented their book entitled ”The Dark Side of Google” (2007; it-fr-es-en) firstly presented in 2006 .The book originally appeared in Italian, and has been translated into French, Spanish and consequently English. The distinct thing about writing is [...]