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A story about YouTube’s googlization and the hidden community
<p style=”text-align: justify;”>“From You to Tube: YouTube’s googlization and the hidden community” is a short video created by Lasse Timmermann and me for the Digital Methods Seminar. It follows the conceptual and methodological framework of “distilling the ‘textual grammar’ of a website history”<a href=”#_ftn1″>[1]</a> set by the Digital Methods Initiative in the video “Google and the Politics of Tabs”. We…
Lev Manovich: Studying Culture With Search Algorithms
New media theorist Lev Manovich summarized his latest contribution to the field of software studies: cultural analytics. Whereas traditional cultural analysis relies on real-world resources (human interpretation and physical storage), cultural analytics relies on the computer and search algorithms in order to discern and interpret culture.
Ingmar Weber: Free the Query Logs
With Google seeping into every nook of the Society of the Query conference – the subject, direct or indirect, of most presentations and discussions – you might ask why Google isn’t here to speak for itself. Unfortunately and unsurprisingly, the company makes it very difficult for staff to speak at events (look at how rarely they attend the industry’s largest conferences:…
Matteo Pasquinelli: Are We Renting our Collective Intelligence to Google?
Matteo Pasquinelli’s presentation this Friday at The Society of the Query conference organized by the Institute of Network Cultures lead by Geert Lovink, 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…
Matthew Fuller: Search Engine Alternatives
The search market is a multi-billion dollar industry, and given such potential to capitalize there is a large window of opportunity with a vast range of possibilities for the future of search. The mythology of the search engine is that there is only one type of user and only one end-point for any given search. Matthew Fuller, author of a number of books on art, media and software, dismisses such narrow thinking by welcoming a cast of “alternative search engines” that offer some variety to the classic retrieval model of search.
Yann Moulier Boutang @ The Society of The Query asking, “Are we all just Google’s worker bees?”
Are we all just worker bees being exploited by Google for capitalistic means? What Google is selling is not an ordinary service, but a meta-service, one that depends on human contribution. Yann Moulier Boutang likens this human activity to that of the worker bee, and the economy of Google is dependent on the pollination of these bees.
The Digital Revolution vs. the Cuban Revolution?
‘[…] since information wants to be free, then so do the people who have it – setting the stage for a titanic political struggle between the last Soviet-style dictatorship in the world and the first Internet insurgency. Call it the Digital Revolution versus the Cuban Revolution’.[1]
4 Minute Thesis Video on the TEDx Amsterdam Site
I posted a 4-minute video which summarizes some of the main points from my thesis on the music industr(ies), “Copy What Can’t Be Sold; and Sell What Can’t Be Copied”.
VideoSongs: a Cottage Remix Culture Industry
The YouTube account stats under my profile badge now boast over 13,000 videos watched, but besides the occasional surfing squirrel, dramatic chipmunk (technically a prairie dog) or Dawkins diatribe, I spend most of my time on YouTube listening to music. Remixes, covers, mash-ups and live performances of some of my old favorites have quickly become my premiere source for finding…
The culture of speed
The “Accelerated Living conference” took place in Utrecht, last month, and it was part of the Impakt Festival 2009.
As the name may unveil, the conference theme was about the way we experience and how we approach time, speed and space from a number of perspectives given by the panel of speakers: John Tomlinson, Mike Crang, Carmen Leccardi, Steve Goodman, Stamatia Portanova,…
eComm conference 2009
Last week I participated in the eComm conference (The Emerging Communications (eComm) Conference & Awards) in Amsterdam. Impressions? I’m impressed. For two reasons.
Firstly, I was impressed by the conference itself.
Reason 1
The organization was excellent. Moderation by Lee Dryburgh kept both speakers and audience (during question rounds) within strict time constraints. Content-wise the event was engaging and informative. Westergasfabriek proved to be a great…
Previous Posts
- 03-11-2009 If it’s not on Wikipedia, it doesn’t exist hania piotrowska
- 03-11-2009 Democracy of the Algorithm Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff | 2 comments
- 03-11-2009 Food Blogs as a Surrogate for Action Allison Guy | 1 comment
- 02-11-2009 Kick off: True Underground Project! Ramses | 1 comment
- 02-11-2009 (Accelerated) World at Work Jan Bajec | 1 comment
- 02-11-2009 Locative media: mapping movement trough the city Radmila
- 02-11-2009 Digital Preservation and Online Journals GwenKeupe | 1 comment
- 01-11-2009 BEACON and the use of datasets in media art Sjoerd Tuinema
- 01-11-2009 Medium specificity: the difference between analogue literature and electronic literature Suzanne | 2 comments
- 01-11-2009 “iWATCH my neighbor, because iTHINK he is up to no good.” ThomasFonville
- 01-11-2009 Ask The Readers: Hey YOU. Let’s talk! J.Bruijntjes | 3 comments
- 01-11-2009 Weerwoord.nl as a Digital Public Sphere GwenKeupe
- 01-11-2009 Information Overload at eComm JelleK
- 01-11-2009 Git Virtue?: Github and Commons-based Peer Production John Haltiwanger | 4 comments

