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<p>Dear all, <br>
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<p>I'm not sure whether this mailing list still exists, but if so,
this event might be of interest for search engine people:<br>
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<p>Invitatation to project presentation & panel discussion
"Google, surveillance capitalism, and discrimination – from
critique to intervention?":</p>
<p>12. April 2022, 17:30 – 20:00h, online and in Vienna:<br>
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<p> Austrian Academy of Sciences<br>
Doktor-Ignaz-Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna</p>
<p>"Johannessaal"<strong> <a
href="https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/ita/pages/google-surveillance-capitalism-and-discrimination-from-critique-to-intervention"
moz-do-not-send="true">REGISTRATION FORM</a><br>
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<p>Google's hegemonial stand, its algorithms, and possible
interventions are at the focus of this event. ITA researcher
Astrid Mager will present the results of her FWF project and
bring together leading search engine researchers to discuss
Google critique, regulation, and alternatives.<br>
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With Google being front and center, search engines have been
exposed again and again for not offering objective results. It
has been proven that Google placed its own products on
valuable “front-page real estate”, and notions such as the
“Googlization of everything” underline its hegemonic position.
It has a business model based on user profiling dubbed
surveillance capitalism. More recently, Google’s algorithms
have been found to output biased and discriminatory results.
Building on this critique, what interventions are necessary
and what are possible alternatives? How has regulation,
specifically of Google and surveillant platforms more
generally, responded to these developments? What else is to be
done about the hegemony of Google, its vast personal data
collection, its discriminatory results, and the governance and
accountability of engines and other online platforms? Finally,
how can we pave the way towards more open, just, and
independent search engines and infrastructures in the future?<br>
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This public event brings together leading search engine
scholars to discuss these questions from a European
perspective. The evening opens with a talk by Astrid Mager,
senior postdoc at the Institute of Technology Assessment (ITA)
of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, presenting the results of
her project „Algorithmic Imaginaries“. It is followed by a
lively panel discussion with <a
href="https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/english/graham-rosie.aspx"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Rosie Graham</a>
(University of Birmingham), <a
href="https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/r/i/b.rieder/b.rieder.html"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Bernhard Rieder</a>
(University of Amsterdam) und <a
href="https://www.kau.se/en/researchers/elizabeth-van-couvering"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Elizabeth Van
Couvering</a> (Karlstad University), moderated by <a
href="https://portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/cristian-norocel"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Ov Cristian Norocel</a>
(Lund University) and <a
href="https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/r/o/r.a.rogers/r.a.rogers.html"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Richard Rogers</a>
(University of Amsterdam). <strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>more information on the program and link to stream
here:</strong></p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/ita/detail/event/google-surveillance-capitalism-and-discrimination-from-critique-to-intervention"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/ita/detail/event/google-surveillance-capitalism-and-discrimination-from-critique-to-intervention</a></p>
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