Posts Tagged: Google

Geert Lovink in NRC Next

By admin, March 4, 2010

On monday March 1, Dutch newspaper NRC Next devoted two pages to articles on Google. One article by Peter Teffer, ”Maakt het internet ons dommer?” (does the Internet dumb us down?) features an interview with Geert Lovink. The other article is an experiment by two NRC reporters, Teffer and Pfauth, who attempted to live and [...]
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 [...]

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’, [...]

Society of the Query on Google Wave

By Chris Castiglione, November 14, 2009

Notes and discussion on The Society of the Query are public on Google Wave: You can find them here: with:public “Notes on Society of the Query”

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 [...]

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 [...]

Joris van Hoboken: Does privacy still exist in an environment of search?

By Chris Castiglione, November 13, 2009

“In a society of the query, it’s an interesting question to ask what happens to all those queries, what legal norms apply to the registration, processing and access to these queries, and do these norms successfully safeguard the more fundamental interests of search engine users: a free realm to seek and access information and ideas,” [...]

Yann Moulier Boutang asks, “Are we all just Google’s worker bees?”

By Chris Castiglione, November 13, 2009

Are we all just worker bees being exploited by Google for capitalistic means? Google has become the emblem of cognitive capitalism because it has invented a new economic model relying on the controlled development of collective intelligence networks. French socio-economist Yann Moulier Boutang explored the dependency of Google (as a factory for the commodization of [...]
Universal availability of information is difficult without being responsive to...

Democracy of the Algorithm

By marijn de vries hoogerwerff, October 21, 2009

Universal availability of information is difficult without being responsive to local condition, but in including national rationales, different views on what is considered harmful information are introduced. A much heard outcry of critics of Google’s censorship practices in China is that one only need to search for keywords such as “Tiananmen Square” in both Google.com [...]