Tag Archives: Googlization

Rethinking Googlization

Harro Heijboer | 21 December 2009, 1:53 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , , ,

In current search engine research the importance of Google as object of study seems to be inevitable. Google seems to be indexing parts of the physical and digital world, which we first thought to be unsearchable. Googlization, the term that is used to describe this, points out how Google is at the core of this research. “It is to describe…

Siva Vaidhyanathan on Googlization, “Only the elite and proficient get to opt out”

Chris Castiglione | 30 November 2009, 3:35 am | 2 comments | tags: , ,

The term Googlization, according to Siva Vaidhyanathan, is the process of being processed, rendered, and represented by Google. His upcoming book The Googlization of Everything investigates the actions and intentions behind Google. At The Society of the Query Vaidhyanathan choose one issue from his book: the politics and implications of Google Maps’ Street View.

A story about YouTube’s googlization and the hidden community

Simeona Petkova | 20 November 2009, 10:54 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , , ,
<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…

The Anti-Googlization: How Alternative Search Engines Find Their Way on the Web

Desiree de Jong | 21 October 2009, 4:36 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

On the website googlizationofeverything.com, theorist Siva Vaidhyanathan states that the current web is dominated in several ways by search engine Google. Google related sites and ‘Googleware’ like Google Books and Google Earth and the video channel YouTube. In a lot of countries, Google is by far the most used search engine; in the Netherlands, Google controls even more than 95…

The Mighty Morphing Short Shorts

John Haltiwanger | 10 October 2009, 9:32 pm | 1 comment | tags: , ,

Literature has been shrinking. No, I’m not referring to the decrease in readership demographics, but about “new” literary forms that sprang up in the 1990s. What will be referred to here collectively as short shorts are narrative works characterized by low word counts and having as many sub-genres as modern electronic music.

The great power of a Wikipedia sysop

Yufen Chen | 20 September 2009, 4:08 am | 3 comments | tags: , , , , , , ,

A sysop (as a system operator) is a controversial actor in Wikipedia. The term sysop means an administrator of a multi-user computer system, such as a bulletin board system (BBS) or an online virtual community. In the Wikipedia world, Sysops are known as editors who have been trusted with access to restricted technical features. There are no official requirements for…