Googolopoly

By Shirley Niemans, February 3, 2010

Internet board game from box.net

NYU professor Mushon Zer Aviv and his graduate class in...

NYU graduate class goes ‘A week without Google’

By Shirley Niemans, February 3, 2010

NYU professor Mushon Zer Aviv and his graduate class in (new) Media (networked) Culture and (distributed) Communication met quite a challenge this past week as the class assignment was to live and work for a full week without using any Google service. Read about the assignment, the rules and the outcomes on http://cultureandcommunication.org/tdm/s10/admin/a-week-without-google/, and be [...]

Deep Search II: Vienna, May 28 2010

By Shirley Niemans, January 21, 2010

The automatic classification of data, its indexing, and its evaluation are at the heart of new communication environments. What lies beneath is not just a drive to organize the world’s information, but also to classify human relations: from the management of the modern workplace and consumers in mass societies, to the bio-political management of the [...]

Data Management as a signifying practice David Gugerli, ETH Zurich...

Lecture David Gugerli – The Culture of the Search Society

By margreet riphagen, November 30, 2009

Data Management as a signifying practice David Gugerli, ETH Zurich November 13, 2009, Amsterdam Edited by: Baruch Gottlieb Databases are operationally essential to the search society. Since the 1960’s, they have been developed, installed, and maintained by software engineers in view of a particular future user, and they have been applied and adapted by different [...]

Siva Vaidhyanathan on Googlization, “Only the elite and proficient get to opt out”

By Chris Castiglione, November 19, 2009

The term Googlization, according to Siva Vaidhyanathan, is the process of being processed, rendered, and represented by Google. Vaidhyanathan’s upcoming book The Googlization of Everything investigates the actions and intentions behind the Google corporation. This afternoon at The Society of the Query Vaidhyanathan choose one issue from his book: the politics and implications of Google [...]

Martin Feuz is an independent researcher with a strong interest...

Martin Feuz (CH) Google Personal Search – What are we to make of it?

By Rosa Menkman, November 17, 2009

Martin Feuz is an independent researcher with a strong interest in human-information interactions. Specifically, he focuses on exploratory (Web) search and the ways in which such interactions can be meaningfully and experimentally supported. In his recent work, he undertook a critical analysis of Google personal search to open the lid of Google’s black box a [...]

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 [...]

Michael Stevenson presents a Google art expose

By Rosa Menkman, November 16, 2009

Michael Stevenson is a lecturer and PhD candidate at the Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam. For the Society of the Query evening program he presented a very interesting selection of artistic and activist projects that were engaged with (the re-attribution of) different elements related to Web search. Query The IP-Browser (Govcom.org) for instance [...]

Ton van het Hof (NL) about flarf poetry

By Rosa Menkman, November 16, 2009

Flarf poetry can be characterized as an avant-garde poetry movement of the late 20th and the early 21st century. In flarf poetry a poet roams the Internet using random word searches, to distill newly created phrases and bizarre constructions that he later shares with the flarf community. Flarf poetry can be described as a ‘readymade’, [...]

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 [...]