From kontakt at renekoenig.eu Tue Oct 2 10:27:29 2012 From: kontakt at renekoenig.eu (=?iso-8859-1?B?UmVu6SBL9m5pZw==?=) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 10:27:29 +0200 Subject: [re-search] =?iso-8859-1?q?Googling_=229/11=22=3A_A_cross-cultura?= =?iso-8859-1?q?l_comparison_of_suggestions_for_a_loaded_term?= Message-ID: <00f001cda077$c2fa5330$48eef990$@renekoenig.eu> New blog post: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/re-search/2012/10/01/googling-911-a-cross-cu ltural-comparison-of-suggestions-for-a-loaded-term/ Cheers, Ren? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kontakt at renekoenig.eu Wed Oct 3 15:40:17 2012 From: kontakt at renekoenig.eu (=?iso-8859-2?B?UmVu6SBL9m5pZw==?=) Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 15:40:17 +0200 Subject: [re-search] computational culture issue two Message-ID: <004c01cda16c$a02f5990$e08e0cb0$@renekoenig.eu> Some interesting articles related to search engines... Cheers, Ren? --- Computational Culture Issue Two Computational Culture is an online open-access peer-reviewed journal of inter-disciplinary enquiry into the nature of cultural computational objects, practices, processes and structures. We are pleased to present the publication of the second issue of the journal including the following articles, comment and reviews. http://www.computationalculture.net/ Articles Robert W. Gehl & Sarah Bell, Heterogeneous Software Engineering: Garmisch 1968, Microsoft Vista, and a Methodology for Software Studies Annette Vee, Text, Speech, Machine: Metaphors for Computer Code in the Law Bernhard Rieder, What is in PageRank? A Historical and Conceptual Investigation of a Recursive Status Index Jennifer Gabrys, Sensing an Experimental Forest: Processing Environments and Distributing Relations Carlos Barreneche, The Order of Places: Code, Ontology and Visibility in Locative Media Shintaro Miyazaki, Algorhythmics: Understanding Micro-Temporality in Computational Cultures Comment Bernard Stiegler, Die Aufkl?rung in the Age of Philosophical Engineering Reviews Chiara Bernardi, Working Towards a Definition of the Philosophy of Software Kevin Hamilton, Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile " ", Notes from the Digital Underground: Cyber Illegalism and the New Egoists Boris Ru?i?, Review of Networks Without a Cause: A Critique of Social Media Felix Stalder, The Googlization of Google Greg Elmer, Peer-to-Peer Protesting: Evading the Police Kettle _______________________________________________ The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ From sjgknight at gmail.com Fri Oct 5 15:36:09 2012 From: sjgknight at gmail.com (Simon Knight) Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 14:36:09 +0100 Subject: [re-search] Society of the Query Message-ID: Dear Ren? (and list) My project is perhaps slightly off topic now, but I have written some things about search use in education, particularly collaborative, and particularly as related to 'epistemic beliefs'. (e.g. this blog; others on the site are on the same topic). http://www.nominettrust.org.uk/knowledge-centre/blogs/finding-knowledge-young-peoples-use-search-engines I've also been exploring search engine use in education and particularly collaborative search engines (moving more to academic search engines now). I've curated a scoop.it on that http://www.scoop.it/t/edu-search. Let me know if any of that's of interest. Best Simon -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kontakt at renekoenig.eu Mon Oct 8 11:24:38 2012 From: kontakt at renekoenig.eu (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_K=F6nig?=) Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 11:24:38 +0200 Subject: [re-search] Society of the Query In-Reply-To: <50729A18.6040501@renekoenig.eu> References: <50729A18.6040501@renekoenig.eu> Message-ID: <50729BD6.8030308@renekoenig.eu> On 08.10.2012 11:17, Ren? K?nig wrote: > Dear Simon, dear list, > > no, that?s not off topic at all, at least not for me. In fact, I?m > looking on epistemic aspects of search engines myself in my PhD > project. I?m not focusing on children but I find that perspective also > very interesting. Would you like to write something about your > research for our blog? > > By the way, that also goes out to the others: Our idea is to establish > a COLLABORTAIVE research blog, so contributors are welcome. Just send > me a mail and let me know what you have in mind. > > Best, > > Ren? > > On 05.10.2012 15:36, Simon Knight wrote: >> Dear Ren? (and list) >> My project is perhaps slightly off topic now, but I have written some >> things about search use in education, particularly collaborative, and >> particularly as related to 'epistemic beliefs'. (e.g. this blog; >> others on the site are on the same topic). >> http://www.nominettrust.org.uk/knowledge-centre/blogs/finding-knowledge-young-peoples-use-search-engines >> >> >> I've also been exploring search engine use in education and >> particularly collaborative search engines (moving more to academic >> search engines now). I've curated a scoop.it on >> that http://www.scoop.it/t/edu-search. >> >> Let me know if any of that's of interest. >> >> Best >> Simon > > -- Dipl.-Soz. Ren? K?nig Karlsruher Institut f?r Technologie Institut f?r Technikfolgenabsch?tzung und Sytemanalyse (ITAS) Postfach 3640 D-76021 Karlsruhe Tel.: +49 (0) 721 / 608-22665 Web/Skype: renekoenig.eu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From astrid.mager at oeaw.ac.at Wed Oct 17 15:22:44 2012 From: astrid.mager at oeaw.ac.at (astrid mager) Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:22:44 +0200 Subject: [re-search] Fwd: [ag_daten_netzwerke] Datencenter oder wie Google die Welt sieht In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <507EB124.3020205@oeaw.ac.at> interesting images! best, astrid http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/10/ff-inside-google-data-center/ Seb. From dirk.lewandowski at haw-hamburg.de Mon Oct 22 15:22:11 2012 From: dirk.lewandowski at haw-hamburg.de (Dirk Lewandowski) Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:22:11 +0200 Subject: [re-search] Call for Papers: Handbuch Internet-Suchmaschinen, Band 3 Message-ID: <12471506-73E9-46D1-9DC1-650303B2D7F1@haw-hamburg.de> Handbuch Internet-Suchmaschinen, Band 3 Hrsg. Prof. Dr. Dirk Lewandowski Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Aka, 2013 Call for Chapters Das bislang in zwei B?nden vorliegende Handbuch Internet-Suchmaschinen hat sich zu einem viel genutzten und h?ufig zitierten Standardwerk in Wissenschaft und Praxis entwickelt. Um den vielf?ltigen Weiterentwicklungen im Suchmaschinenbereich und den zahlreichen Themen, die in den ersten beiden nicht ber?cksichtigt werden konnten, Rechnung zu tragen, soll nun ein weiterer Band folgen. Auch dieser Band soll wiederum Beitr?ge von Autoren aus Wissenschaft und Praxis enthalten, die sich mit dem Thema Suchmaschinen besch?ftigen. Das Themenspektrum ist dabei weit gefasst; Ziel des Werks ist es auch, einen interdisziplin?ren Zugang zum Thema zu erm?glichen. Informationen zu den beiden vorangegangenen B?nden finden sich unter: http://www.amazon.de/Handbuch-Internet-Suchmaschinen-Dirk-Lewandowski/dp/3898386074 bzw. http://www.amazon.de/Handbuch-Internet-Suchmaschinen-Neue-Entwicklungen-Web-Suche/dp/3898386511 Zielgruppe Das Handbuch soll als Orientierungshilfe f?r Wissenschaftler und Praktiker dienen, die sich unter verschiedenen Gesichtspunkten mit Suchmaschinen bzw. Suchtechnologie besch?ftigen. Auf der Seite der Wissenschaftler werden Informationswissenschaftler, Informatiker, Medienwissenschaftler und Bibliothekswissenschaftler angesprochen. Bei den Praktikern ist an Entwickler und Entscheider zu denken. F?r Entwickler bietet das Handbuch einen ?berblick ?ber M?glichkeiten f?r Suchsysteme, gibt Anregungen zur Umsetzung und zeigt anhand von bestehenden L?sungen, wie eine Umsetzung aussehen kann. F?r Entscheider bietet das Werk lesbare ?berblicksartikel zu relevanten Themenbereichen, auf deren Basis eine Strategie f?r individuelle Suchl?sungen erarbeitet werden kann. Als dritte Praktikergruppe sind Berater zu nennen, die sich zu den wichtigsten Themen rund um die Suche informieren m?chten. Beitragsarten F?r das Handbuch werden ?berblicksartikel gesucht; Artikel, die prim?re Forschungsergebnisse referieren, sind nicht f?r das Handbuch geeignet. Passende Artikel sollen den Stand der Forschung und Praxis darstellen und den Lesern einen ?berblick ?ber das jeweilige Themenfeld bieten. Einreichungen und Zeitplan Das Handbuch soll im Fr?hherbst 2013 bei der Akademischen Verlagsgesellschaft Aka, Heidelberg, erscheinen. Der Herausgeber bittet um Vorschl?ge f?r Kapitel in Form von Extended Abstracts mit 500 bis 1500 W?rtern an die unten angegebene Adresse bis zum 18. November 2012. Bitte f?gen Sie dem Abstract eine vorl?ufige Gliederung des Kapitels und eine kurze biographische Notiz bei. Die R?ckmeldung ?ber die Annahme erfolgt bis zum 30. November 2012. Die vollst?ndigen Kapitel (ca. 60.000 Zeichen) sind bis zum 1. M?rz 2013 einzureichen. Die Ver?ffentlichung erfolgt im September 2013. -- Prof. Dr. Dirk Lewandowski Hochschule f?r Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg (Hamburg University of Applied Sciences) Fakult?t Design Medien Information Department of Information Finkenau 35 D - 22081 Hamburg Germany Tel.: +49 (0) 40-42875 3621 Fax: +49 (0) 3222-1445 301 Skype: dirk.lewandowski Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/Dirk_Lew http://www.bui.haw-hamburg.de http://www.bui.haw-hamburg.de/lewandowski.html ********* Associate Editor (Europe), Online Information Review http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?issn=1468-4527 ********* Aktuelles Buch: Handbuch Internet-Suchmaschinen, Band 2: Neue Entwicklungen in der Web-Suche http://www.amazon.de/Handbuch-Internet-Suchmaschinen-Neue-Entwicklungen-Web-Suche/dp/3898386511 ********* New book: Web Search Engine Research http://www.amazon.com/Search-Research-Library-Information-Science/dp/1780526369/ From jc.plantin at gmail.com Tue Oct 23 12:14:24 2012 From: jc.plantin at gmail.com (jcplantin) Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:14:24 +0200 Subject: [re-search] CFP International Symposium: Towards an Ecology of Data. Political and Scientific Issues of Digital Data. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: *Call for Paper* *International Symposium* *Towards an Ecology of Data.* * Political and Scientific Issues of Digital Data.* *February 14th, 2013* *Institut des Sciences de la Communication du CNRS (ISCC)* *20 rue Berbier-du-Mets, Paris, France* There is currently a growing number of data produced and disseminated in professional, public and scientific spaces. These data come from various sources: governments posting their operational data within Open Data initiatives, companies opening non-strategic data, scientists increasingly sharing banks of data, or Internet users. Traditional ways of processing data seem insufficient in front of these big data. This fact calls for new means of thinking how to extract, store (grids, cloud computing ...), share, analyze and visualize data. The Web 2.0 related term ?data science? (i.e. extracting, processing, analyzing data) now concerns a large number of activities similarly facing large data sets, such as scientific research or data journalism. This symposium will cover the theoretical and practical implications of social research based on data. It calls for critical works that identify the quantitative leap induced by large masses of data available for social sciences, and the related disciplinary and epistemological consequences, e.g. notions of author or producer, public and private actors strategies, citizen uses of data, emerging ecosystems of data processing, local initiatives currently developing Open Data services and applications with related business issues. Epistemological reflections, work in progress and position papers are welcome and can cover one of the following areas: *1. **Digital data and social sciences: History and Epistemology* Large data corpora have been processed for a long time within scientific practices: what is the precise nature of the qualitative leap brought by current technologies? Does the presence of massive data change social science practices? What are the needs, expectations, challenges and emerging solutions? Do these new methods of processing digital data imply epistemological changes? *2. **The politics of Open Data, citizen participation and local eco-systems.* In recent years, Open Data initiatives have been set off by both law changes and actors? specific demands. It aims to make public data available and reusable. This movement raises many questions: Is it a public service improvement, a regional development tool? What is the relationship between supply and demand, top/down and bottom/up initiatives? Who are those who really understand the data? Can these uses be interpreted as civic empowerment or democracy renewal, as suggested by the proximity between "Open Data" and "Open Government"? How can traditional participatory democracy use these data? What are the possible links between public data and already implemented territorial e-democracy practices? *3. **New sociotechnical mediations, training and professionalization.* Which elements should compose the knowledge base necessary to understand issues around these data? What are the new forms of mediation facilitating citizen uses of released data and its applications? This third axis will highlight, for each category of actors, the type of skills required to be able to understand the data ecosystem in all its complexity, from technical to political aspects. What are the solutions implemented by the various professions facing this flow of data? What types of mediation would increase effective ownership of released data by civil society? What are the training needs to sustain and develop these efforts? How are these new forms of data management skills reorganizing professions (particularly journalism), companies and administrations involved in Open Data? *Submission* We welcome proposals based on current experiments, theoretical reflections and comparative analysis. They can be written in English or in French. Proposals should be 1000 words long, short bibliography included. Selected contributions will be published in a special issue of a French-speaking academic journal. *Proposals should be sent to:* Cl?ment Mabi: clement.mabi at utc.fr and Jean-Christophe Plantin: jean-christophe.plantin at utc.fr *Deadlines* ? Deadline for submission of proposals: November 15th 2012 ? Notification of acceptance: December 15th 2012 ? Symposium: February 14th 2013 *Scientific Committee * David Berry (Swansea University, College of Arts and Humanities) M?lanie Dulong de Rosnay (CNRS-ISCC) Cl?ment Mabi (UTC-Costech) Jean-Christophe Plantin (UTC-Costech) Bernard Rieder (University of Amsterdam, Media studies department) Val?rie Schafer (CNRS-ISCC) Laurence Smith-Monnoyer (UTC-Costech) Bruno J. Strasser (Universit? de Gen?ve & Yale University) St?phanie Wojcik (UPEC-Ceditec) -- Jean-Christophe Plantin Doctorant Contractuel Sciences de l'information et de la communication Universit? de Technologie de Compi?gne Laboratoire Costech/Equipe EPIN Mob: + 33 (0)6 50 86 15 60 Blog: cartonomics.org Twitter: @jcplantin -- Jean-Christophe Plantin Doctorant Contractuel Sciences de l'information et de la communication Universit? de Technologie de Compi?gne Laboratoire Costech/Equipe EPIN Mob: + 33 (0)6 50 86 15 60 Blog: cartonomics.org Twitter: @jcplantin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Best, Ren? -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Digital Methods Winter School 2013, Amsterdam Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:34:54 +0200 From: Richard Rogers To: dmi at mediastudies.nl Please forward to interested people Call for Participants Data Sprint: The New Logistics of Short-form Method Digital Methods Winter School 2013 and Mini-Conference 22-25 January 2013 https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/WinterSchool2013 Digital Methods Initiative New Media & Digital Culture University of Amsterdam Turfdraagsterpad 9 1012 XT Amsterdam the Netherlands The Digital Methods Initiative (DMI), Amsterdam, is pleased to announce its 5th annual Winter School, entitled "Data Sprint: The New Logistics of Short-form Method ." The Digital Methods Winter School provides the opportunity for PhD candidates, advanced MA students and motivated scholars to present a short paper on digital methods and new media related topics, and receive feedback from the Amsterdam group of DMI researchers and international participants, often drawn from previous Digital Methods Summer and Winter Schools . This year's Winter School is four days, with one day devoted to the Mini-conference, where the papers are presented and participants also serve as respondents, and three days to the workshop. The theme of the workshop is "alternatives to big data," and includes a data sprint. Digital Methods Winter School Workshop The 2013 Digital Methods Winter School is devoted to emerging alternatives to big data. The Barcamp, Hackathon, Hack Day, Edit-a-thon, Data Sprint, Code Fest, Open Data Day, Hack the Government, and other workshop formats are sometimes thought of as "quick and dirty." The work is exploratory, only the first step, outputting indicators at most, before the serious research begins. However, these new formats also may be viewed as alternative infrastructures as well as approaches to big data in the sense of not only the equipment and logistics involved (hit and run) but also the research set-up and protocols, which may be referred to as "short-form method." The 2013 Digital Methods Winter School is dedicated to the outcomes and critiques of short-form method, and is also reflexive in that it includes a data sprint, where we focus on one aspect of the debate about short- vs. long-form method: data capture. At the Winter School the results of an actual data sprint from a week earlier (on counter-Jihadists ) will be presented, including a specific short-form method for issue mapping . One outcome of the Winter School would be a comparison of methods for their capacity to fit productively the workshop format (barcamp, sprint, etc.), with the question of what may be achieved in shorter (and shorter) time frames. We also will explore a variety of objects of study for sprints, including data donations, where one offers particular data sets for abbreviated analysis. Digital Methods Winter School Mini-Conference The data sprint is the Winter School workshop. There is also the annual Digital Methods Winter School Mini-Conference. The mini-conference provides the opportunity for digital methods and allied researchers to present short yet complete papers (5,000-7,500 words) and serve as respondents, providing feedback. Often the work presented follows from previous Digital Methods Summer Schools. The mini-conference accepts papers in the general digital methods and allied areas: the hyperlink and other natively digital objects, the website as archived object, web historiographies, search engine critique, Google as globalizing machine, cross-spherical analysis and other approaches to comparative media studies, device cultures, national web studies, Wikipedia as cultural reference, the technicity of (networked) content, post-demographics, platform studies, crawling and scraping, graphing and clouding, and similar. Key dates 19 December 2012: Submission of paper titles, abstracts and bios to winterschool[at]digitalmethods.net . 21 December 2012: Notifications 14 January 2013: Submission of complete papers (5,000-7,500 words) 16 January 2013: Program and schedule available 22-25 January 2013: DMI Mini-conference and Workshop Tentative Winter School Schedule 22 January 9.30-17.00 Mini-conference, per paper: 10-minute presentations, two 5-minute responses, 5-minute Q&A 23 January 9.30-17.00 Workshop, with morning mini-talks, introducing tracks and group projects (data sprint methods and findings from the counter-jihadist network mapping); group formation with specific short-form methods 24 January 9.30-17.00 Workshop, with morning talk on "short-form method critique" 25 January 9.30-17.00 Workshop, with afternoon presentations Fees & Logistics The fee for the Digital Methods Winter School 2013 is EUR 195. Bank transfer information will be sent along with the notification on 21 December 2012. The Winter School is self-catered. The venue is in the center of Amsterdam with abundant coffee houses and lunch places. The Winter School closes with a festive event, after the final presentations. Participants are expected to find their own housing (where airbnb and similar short-stay sites are helpful). The DMI organisers are happy to provide tips. Here is a guide to the Amsterdam new media scene . About The Digital Methods Winter School is part of the Digital Methods Initiative, Amsterdam, dedicated to reworking method for Internet-related research. The Digital Methods Initiative holds the annual Digital Methods Summer Schools (six to date), which are intensive and full time 2-week undertakings in the Summertime. The 2013 Summer School will take place 24 June - 5 July 2012. The coordinators of the Digital Methods Initiative are Sabine Niederer and Esther Weltevrede (PhD candidates in New Media & Digital Culture, University of Amsterdam), and the director is Richard Rogers, Professor of New Media & Digital Culture, University of Amsterdam. Digital methods are online at http://www.digitalmethods.net/. The DMI about page includes a substantive introduction, and also a list of Digital Methods people, with bios. DMI holds occasional Autumn and Spring workshops. 2012 Digital Methods Winter School Revisited The 2012 Digital Methods Winter School was dedicated to "Interfaces for the Cloud: Curating the Data ." Among the speakers was Daniel van der Velden of Metahaven, the critical design research group. The lecture that he gave is now published. "Captives of the Cloud," parts I & II, are out on e-flux: http://www.e-flux.com/journal/captives-of-the-cloud-part-i/ http://www.e-flux.com/journal/captives-of-the-cloud-part-ii/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From adresscomptoir at gmail.com Wed Oct 31 12:14:37 2012 From: adresscomptoir at gmail.com (Adresscomptoir) Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 12:14:37 +0100 Subject: [re-search] Project description - a pre-history of search engines Message-ID: Dear list, the "Society of the Query" is a fine initiative and I am delighted to send you a description of my research activities: Project: Before Google. A pre-history of search-engines in analogue times I am a historian and during the last years I have done extensive research on what could be called the ?pre-history? of search-engines especially in early modern times: Starting from questions that arise from today?s discussions on search-engines I finished in 2011 a habilitation thesis about the so called ?intelligence offices? in early modern Europe. The ?primal scene? of these establishments was written in a chapter of Montaigne?s Essais, entitled ?Of one defect in our government?: The author proposed that in every city there should be an office assuming the tasks of a sales agency, a labour exchange and a travel companion service. This idea was later taken up by the physician and journalist Th?ophraste Renaudot who in 1630 founded the Paris-based ?Bureau d?adresse?, which, in addition to the mentioned intermediary activities, concerned itself with providing medical care to the poor, acting as a pawn shop as well as a scholarly academy and throughout its existence drew a lot of attention. Following the enforced abandonment of most of its activities in 1644, new facilities were launched in Paris whose activities, however, were limited to more profane kinds of intermediary services, their core functions including those of a sales agency as well as a labour and a real estate exchange. The reputation held by Renaudot?s ?Bureau d?adresse? spread over to other places, in particular to London, where, beginning from the middle of the 17th century, ?registry? or ?intelligence offices? were established. Also as early as in the 17th century, similar offices were suggested to be launched in German-speaking territories (as far as is known, the only project implemented was, in 1689, the ?Adress-Haus? in Berlin, which, however, primarily served as a pawn shop). In effect, it was not until the 18th century that intelligence offices started to operate in many German-speaking cities by names such as ?Frag- und Kundschafts?mter?, ?Adresscomptoirs?, ?Berichth?user? or ?Intelligenz?mter?; around 1800, many of them were merged into the advertising departments and editorial offices of the intelligence papers issued by them. Both intelligence offices and modern search engines refer users to addresses which they may expect to serve their needs and facilitate orientation amidst an otherwise confusing host of information. I defended my habilitation thesis at Vienna University last July and then published it online: TANTNER, ANTON: Adressb?ros im Europa der Fr?hen Neuzeit. Habilitationsschrift, eingereicht an der Historisch-Kulturwisenschaftlichen Fakult?t der Universit?t Wien, 2011. http://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:128115 A short article on the results of this work will be published in the January 2013-issue of ?Merkur. Deutsche Zeitschrift f?r europ?isches Denken?. For other publications (all of them in German, but I intend to publish an English article on the intelligence offices in the near future) see the project homepage: http://adressbueros.tantner.net/ Apart from the ?intelligence offices? I did also some research on other human media and institutions that can be regarded as part of a ?pre-history? of search engines that remains to be written; so I published last year a sketch that is called ?Searching and Finding before Google?: TANTNER, ANTON: Suchen und finden vor Google. Eine Skizze, in: Mitteilungen der Vereinigung ?sterreichischer Bibliothekarinnen & Bibliothekare, 64.2011/1, pp. 42?69. Online: https://fedora.phaidra.univie.ac.at/fedora/get/o:103096/bdef:Content/get Together with Thomas Brandstetter and Thomas H?bel I organised in Vienna in 2008 also a conference on this topic; the collected essays of this conference will be published at Transcript in November 2012: BRANDSTETTER, THOMAS/H?BEL, THOMAS/TANTNER, ANTON (ed.): Vor Google. Eine Mediengeschichte der Suchmaschine im analogen Zeitalter. Bielefeld: Transcript, to be published in November 2012, see http://www.transcript-verlag.de/ts1875/ts1875.php (contributors: Stefan Rieger, Daniel Weidner, Alix Cooper, Volker Bauer, Andreas Golob, Markus Krajewski, Henning Tr?per, Martin Schreiber and Bernhard Rieder) Currently I am a Research Fellow at the Internationale Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (IFK) in Vienna and working especially on Jacob Bianchi, who initiated in 1770 in Vienna a ?Counter of Commerce, Arts and Sciences? that was broking information, selling models of scientific instruments and acted as a cabinet de lecture. Cheers, Anton Tantner Research Fellow at Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (IFK) Privatdozent f?r Neuere Geschichte an der Universit?t Wien Homepage with "Gallery of House Numbers": http://tantner.net Weblog: http://adresscomptoir.twoday.net Twitter: @adresscomptoir From kontakt at renekoenig.eu Wed Oct 31 17:49:16 2012 From: kontakt at renekoenig.eu (=?windows-1252?Q?Ren=E9_K=F6nig?=) Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:49:16 +0100 Subject: [re-search] New book: Google and the Culture of Search In-Reply-To: <2D204A3ABC61C942AFA59CABEC89E4AF4872B970@ITS-MSXMBS4M.ad.unc.edu> References: <2D204A3ABC61C942AFA59CABEC89E4AF4872B970@ITS-MSXMBS4M.ad.unc.edu> Message-ID: <5091568C.1010103@renekoenig.eu> Almost missed that one. I?m glad that the mailing list slowly takes off. Greetings to everyone and keep posting! Ren? -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Air-L] Google and the Culture of Search Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 07:13:17 +0000 From: Hillis, Ken To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org What did you do before Google? The rise of Google as the dominant internet search provider reflects a generationally-inflected notion that everything that matters is now on the Web, and should, in the moral sense of the verb, be accessible through search. In this theoretically nuanced study of search technology?s broader implications for knowledge production and social relations, the authors shed light on a culture of search in which our increasing reliance on search engines influences not only the way we navigate, classify, and evaluate Web content, but also how we think about ourselves and the world around us, online and off. Ken Hillis, Michael Petit, and Kylie Jarrett seek to understand the ascendancy of search and its naturalization by historicizing and contextualizing Google?s dominance of the search industry, and suggest that the contemporary culture of search is inextricably bound up with a metaphysical longing to manage, order, and categorize all knowledge. Calling upon this nexus between political economy and metaphysics, ?Google and the Culture of Search? explores what is at stake for an increasingly networked culture in which search technology is a site of knowledge and power. "Some say Google makes us stupid. Others say it should make us worry. Google and the Culture of Search makes us both smarter and more worried about Google?s monopoly powers. As Hillis et al. show, Google?s lineage runs less to General Motors than to a long line of mathematicians and metaphysicians who wanted to organize the world?s information?never before has the strange beast of Google been so clearly put into its proper family tree. Read this book!" ?John Durham Peters, University of Iowa "If you wonder why Google gets billions of search queries every day, and (like me) don't think ?because it's free? or ?because it's there? are sufficient answers, you should read this book. It?s a treasure trove of insights into the culture of search." ?Viktor Mayer-Sch?nberger, Oxford Internet Institute Google and the Culture of Search. Routledge. 2012. Ken Hillis Professor of Media and Technology Studies Department of Communication Studies The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3285 USA _______________________________________________ The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: