Algorithmic governmentality and the end(s) of critique–Antoinette Rouvroy

By philip, November 13, 2013

Antoinette Rouvroy, in her presentation titled ‘Algorithmic Governmentalities and the End(s) of Critique’, discussed issues surrounding search engines current focus on relationships between sites rather than content. She began by explaining how modern academic knowledge goes through a series of critiques and peer reviews, while algorithmic knowledge is focused on more predictive aspects, never challenging [...]

Sanne Koevoets – Library Dwelling: Quest and Query Tropes in Narratives on Libraries and the Internet

By stefania, November 11, 2013

Short interview with Sanne Koevoets from network cultures on Vimeo. Dr. Sanne Koevoets currently teaches philosophy and new media studies at Leiden University College in The Hague. In her research she focuses on the gendered dynamics of the library in the network society, with which she has engaged through the figure of the female librarian [...]

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 [...]

Albert Einstein was quoted for saying “Never memorize something that...

Google is knowledge. Yay or nay?

By vince, August 30, 2013

Albert Einstein was quoted for saying “Never memorize something that you can look up”. Of course, at that time, looking up something meant actually going through books and finding information. Nowadays, with Google being a few keystrokes away, not knowing something means you simply have to “Google it”! But is the act of using a [...]

Cross posting from my KMi blog (which has paragraph level...

Evaluating Google as an Epistemic Tool

By INC Team, December 4, 2012

Cross posting from my KMi blog (which has paragraph level commenting enabled to facilitate discussion). I’ve just read an article which explicitly considers the evaluation of search engines with respect to their epistemic functions under a social epistemological perspective. There’s a pre-print available http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/teaching_staff/simpson/simpson_index.html and the citation is: Evaluating Google as an Epistemic Tool, Metaphilosophy [...]

Deep Search ll: Panel 1, Visions of Organizing the World

By Shirley Niemans, June 11, 2010

The second edition of the World Information Institute’s Deep Search conference series took place in Vienna on May 28. Where the first Deep Search symposium, held in November 2008 (find a review here) dealt with the history of information retrieval, the automatic classification of data, civil liberties, digital human rights, the power embedded in search [...]

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 [...]