From dirk.lewandowski at haw-hamburg.de Wed Apr 3 12:51:37 2019 From: dirk.lewandowski at haw-hamburg.de (Dirk Lewandowski) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2019 12:51:37 +0200 Subject: [re-search] Registration now open: "Information Science Trends: Search Engines and Information Retrieval", Hamburg, 26 April 2019 Message-ID: <42D4BD1E-E070-4C6E-86CF-AD894198E658@haw-hamburg.de> Dear colleagues, Join us for a day of exciting talks and discussions on search engines and information retrieval! (Free) registration is now open for the ASIS&T European Chapter event ?Information Science Trends: Search Engines and Information Retrieval? in Hamburg, Germany, on Friday, 26 April 2019. Please register at https://www.eventbrite.de/e/information-science-trends-search-engines-and-information-retrieval-tickets-58978348829 The event will take place at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences Kunst- und Mediencampus Hamburg Finkenau 35 22081 Hamburg Germany Program: 9:30 AM Registration 10:00 AM Welcome and opening remarks 10:15 AM Keynote Prof. Olof Sundin, Lund University, Sweden Invisible Search in Everyday Life How can we understand search and search engines in everyday life? In his lecture Sundin will introduce and discuss some key concepts from his new book Invisible Search and Online Search Engines: The Ubiquity of Search in Everyday Life (2019, with Jutta Haider); specifically he will elucidate the notions friction of relevance and infrastructural meaning-making. The lecture broadens a traditional understanding of searching in information science by locating searching squarely in society and as entwined with the conditions of everyday life. 11:30 AM Dirk Lewandowski, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany A call for fair search engines Search engines like Google have a massive influence on what information users get to see, and on what search results users select. It has been often lamented that search engines are biased. I, however, argue that we have only scratched the surface because search engine bias is a multifaceted concept and the discussion usually solely focuses on some aspects. Further to giving an overview of the topic, I will show how search engine providers (and regulators) can take steps towards making search fair. Whereas a bias-free search engine is impossible, a fair search is. Here, I will not only focus on the big web search engines but also on how developers and product owners can make their search systems fair. 12:30 PM Lunch 1:30 PM Emmy Le, Otto GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg, Germany Product Search at otto.de OTTO is one of the largest full-range online retailer in Germany with over 2.9 million products. Thus the internal on-site product search with more than 1 million search queries per day is the most critical feature to make relevant products and information easy to find. Achieving the right balance between business, measuring search quality and user needs can be quite challenging when building an ecommerce search engine. How we at OTTO respond to these challenges will be part of this talk. 02:15 PM Short presentations Astrid Mager, Institute of Technology Assessment, Wien, Austria Alternative search engines as drivers for social change? Ingo Knuth, Janina Masuhr, Hochschule f?r Medien, Kommunikation und Wirtschaft, Berlin, Germany Decision Drivers for Search Engine Usage ? The Role of the Lock-in Effects Christiane Behnert, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany Influences on the relevance judgment process in academic search systems More short presentations tba. 04:00 PM Coffee Break 4:30 PM ASIS&T presentation: ASIS&T, the European Chapter, the European Student Chapter 04:45 PM Tom Alby, Euler Hermes, Hamburg, Germany Data Science in Search Engine Development Machine Learning has been an essential part of large-scale search engine development even before the term "data science" was coined. With the increasing interest in data science and artificial intelligence, the impact of self-learning algorithms on search engine development, relevance and transparency has to be reviewed. In addition, what is the chance for new search engines to succeed without the vast amount of data that has already been collected? 05:45 PM Closing remarks Kind regards, Dirk Lewandowski Prof. Dr. Dirk Lewandowski T +49 40 428 75 36 21 Skype: dirk.lewandowski Twitter: @Dirk_Lew HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES Faculty Design, Media and Information Department of Information Finkenau 35 / 22081 Hamburg / Germany http://www.searchstudies.org/dirk Suchmaschinen verstehen, 2. Auflage: http://suchmaschinen-verstehen.de Editor, Aslib Journal of Information Management http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=AJIM From geert at xs4all.nl Wed Apr 10 07:37:25 2019 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 07:37:25 +0200 Subject: [re-search] the google logic of search and the loss of collective memory Message-ID: <43CFB0B0-B288-4CAD-B0A9-E3685D116FC1@xs4all.nl> it seems that Google IS forgetting the old Web http://stop.zona-m.net/2018/01/indeed-it-seems-that-google-is-forgetting-the-old-web/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dirk.lewandowski at haw-hamburg.de Thu Apr 18 09:18:17 2019 From: dirk.lewandowski at haw-hamburg.de (Dirk Lewandowski) Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 09:18:17 +0200 Subject: [re-search] Reminder: "Information Science Trends: Search Engines and Information Retrieval", Hamburg, 26 April 2019 Message-ID: We still have a few places available for ASIST?s Hamburg event: "Information Science Trends: Search Engines and Information Retrieval", Hamburg, 26 April 2019 Join us for a day of exciting talks and discussions on search engines and information retrieval! (Free) registration is now open for the ASIS&T European Chapter event ?Information Science Trends: Search Engines and Information Retrieval? in Hamburg, Germany, on Friday, 26 April 2019. Please register at https://www.eventbrite.de/e/information-science-trends-search-engines-and-information-retrieval-tickets-58978348829 The event will take place at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences Kunst- und Mediencampus Hamburg Finkenau 35 22081 Hamburg Germany Program: 9:30 AM Registration 10:00 AM Welcome and opening remarks 10:15 AM Keynote Prof. Olof Sundin, Lund University, Sweden Invisible Search in Everyday Life How can we understand search and search engines in everyday life? In his lecture Sundin will introduce and discuss some key concepts from his new book Invisible Search and Online Search Engines: The Ubiquity of Search in Everyday Life (2019, with Jutta Haider); specifically he will elucidate the notions friction of relevance and infrastructural meaning-making. The lecture broadens a traditional understanding of searching in information science by locating searching squarely in society and as entwined with the conditions of everyday life. 11:30 AM Dirk Lewandowski, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany A call for fair search engines Search engines like Google have a massive influence on what information users get to see, and on what search results users select. It has been often lamented that search engines are biased. I, however, argue that we have only scratched the surface because search engine bias is a multifaceted concept and the discussion usually solely focuses on some aspects. Further to giving an overview of the topic, I will show how search engine providers (and regulators) can take steps towards making search fair. Whereas a bias-free search engine is impossible, a fair search is. Here, I will not only focus on the big web search engines but also on how developers and product owners can make their search systems fair. 12:30 PM Lunch 1:30 PM Emmy Le, Otto GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg, Germany Product Search at otto.de OTTO is one of the largest full-range online retailer in Germany with over 2.9 million products. Thus the internal on-site product search with more than 1 million search queries per day is the most critical feature to make relevant products and information easy to find. Achieving the right balance between business, measuring search quality and user needs can be quite challenging when building an ecommerce search engine. How we at OTTO respond to these challenges will be part of this talk. 02:15 PM Short presentations Astrid Mager, Institute of Technology Assessment, Wien, Austria Alternative search engines as drivers for social change? Ingo Knuth, Janina Masuhr, Hochschule f?r Medien, Kommunikation und Wirtschaft, Berlin, Germany Decision Drivers for Search Engine Usage ? The Role of the Lock-in Effects Christiane Behnert, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany Influences on the relevance judgment process in academic search systems More short presentations tba. 04:00 PM Coffee Break 4:30 PM ASIS&T presentation: ASIS&T, the European Chapter, the European Student Chapter 04:45 PM Tom Alby, Euler Hermes, Hamburg, Germany Data Science in Search Engine Development Machine Learning has been an essential part of large-scale search engine development even before the term "data science" was coined. With the increasing interest in data science and artificial intelligence, the impact of self-learning algorithms on search engine development, relevance and transparency has to be reviewed. In addition, what is the chance for new search engines to succeed without the vast amount of data that has already been collected? 05:45 PM Closing remarks Prof. Dr. Dirk Lewandowski T +49 40 428 75 36 21 Skype: dirk.lewandowski Twitter: @Dirk_Lew HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES Faculty Design, Media and Information Department of Information Finkenau 35 / 22081 Hamburg / Germany http://www.searchstudies.org/dirk Suchmaschinen verstehen, 2. Auflage: http://suchmaschinen-verstehen.de Editor, Aslib Journal of Information Management http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=AJIM Prof. Dr. Dirk Lewandowski T +49 40 428 75 36 21 Skype: dirk.lewandowski Twitter: @Dirk_Lew HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES Faculty Design, Media and Information Department of Information Finkenau 35 / 22081 Hamburg / Germany http://www.searchstudies.org/dirk Suchmaschinen verstehen, 2. 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URL: From geert at xs4all.nl Thu Apr 25 10:30:52 2019 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 10:30:52 +0200 Subject: [re-search] searching for Google alternatives is getting more popular Message-ID: <7D15B23A-8D59-4C06-9994-B1EA77BAE18E@xs4all.nl> https://hackernoon.com/10-reasons-to-consider-a-search-engine-alternative-to-google-a4d46f791545 From geert at xs4all.nl Mon Apr 29 12:55:45 2019 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 12:55:45 +0200 Subject: [re-search] Just out: Invisible Search and Online Search Engines Message-ID: Invisible Search and Online Search Engines--The Ubiquity of Search in Everyday Life (Routledge) By Jutta Haider and Olof Sundin https://www.routledge.com/Invisible-Search-and-Online-Search-Engines-The-Ubiquity-of-Search-in-Everyday/Haider-Sundin/p/book/9781138328617 Invisible Search and Online Search Engines considers the use of search engines in contemporary everyday life and the challenges this poses for media and information literacy. Looking for mediated information is mostly done online and arbitrated by the various tools and devices that people carry with them on a daily basis. Because of this, search engines have a significant impact on the structure of our lives, and personal and public memories. Haider and Sundin consider what this means for society, whilst also uniting research on information retrieval with research on how people actually look for and encounter information. Search engines are now one of society?s key infrastructures for knowing and becoming informed. While their use is dispersed across myriads of social practices, where they have acquired close to naturalised positions, they are commercially and technically centralised. Arguing that search, searching, and search engines have become so widely used that we have stopped noticing them, Haider and Sundin consider what it means to be so reliant on this all-encompassing and increasingly invisible information infrastructure. Invisible Search and Online Search Engines is the first book to approach search and search engines from a perspective that combines insights from the technical expertise of information science research with a social science and humanities approach. As such, the book should be essential reading for academics, researchers, and students working on and studying information science, library and information science (LIS), media studies, journalism, digital cultures, and educational sciences. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: