http://www.shirleyniemans.nl New Media & Digital Culture Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:50:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.shirleyniemans.nl/sotq-program-complete/ Society of the Query conference: 13 - 14 November, Trouw Amsterdam in Amsterdam With the Society of the Query conference -stop searching, start questioning-, the Institute of Network Cultures aims to critically reflect on the information society and the dominant role of the search engine in our culture. What does the ... http://www.shirleyniemans.nl/upcoming-society-of-the-query-conference/ [caption id="attachment_264" align="alignleft" width="140" caption="Descartes, R. (1644) Principia Philosophiae"][/caption] On February 18th, I attended the workshop ‘Abstract Images in Art and Science’ at Utrecht University, organized by dr. Ann-Sophie Lehmann, prof. dr. Paul Ziche, and Pim Verlaek as a cooperation between the Descartes Centre and the Visualisations Group of the Centre ... http://www.shirleyniemans.nl/convention-clash-abstract-images-in-art-and-science/ BLIK, the academic student journal for audiovisual culture asked me to revise (read: shorten by one third) a critical article I wrote in 2008 on research conducted by IBM. It will be published somewhere this month in their forthcoming issue on 'theory and practice'. Abstract: Faced with the challenge of sustaining ... http://www.shirleyniemans.nl/article-in-blik-magazine/ part 1 Session 2: Search Engines and Power Theo Röhle – Dissecting the Gatekeepers Theo Röhle is a PhD candidate in media culture at Hamburg University. His dissertation seeks to establish Actor-Network-Theory (ANT) and Foucauldian concepts of power within search engine research. Where does the power of a search engine exist? One position of ... http://www.shirleyniemans.nl/deep-search-the-digital-future-of-finding-out-part-2/ Last Saturday, November 8, I had the pleasure of attending the well organized World-Information Institute conference Deep Search: The Digital Future of Finding Out in Vienna, Austria. With Deep Search, conference editors Konrad Becker and Felix Stalder set out to address the social and cultural dimension as well as the ... http://www.shirleyniemans.nl/deep-search-the-digital-future-of-finding-out-part-1/ At the recent Picnic Conference, held in Amsterdam from September 24 to 26, web epistemologist Richard Rogers presented several fairly recent Govcom.org projects in the Virtual Platform e-art Dome. The e-art exhibition itself featured Govcom's project elFriendo, interestingly subtitled 'Taking the Work out of Social Networking' and a welcome wink ... http://www.shirleyniemans.nl/google-politics-of-tabs/ Search Engine Society is the name of Alex Halavais' forthcoming book, due to be published by Polity in October 2008, as part of the Digital Media and Society series. Halavais is assistant professor of interactive communications at Quinnipiac University (USA), a 'social architect', and blogs about politics, culture, teaching and ... http://www.shirleyniemans.nl/alex-halavais-search-engine-society/ The vertical search phenomenon has been on the rise for several years. As opposed to the 'horizontal', general purpose search engines such as Google, Ask.com and MS LiveSearch, vertical engines index only a specialized part of the Web. As the elaborate 'verticals' category at altsearchengines.com shows, recent developments are many, ... http://www.shirleyniemans.nl/briteclick-and-vertical-search/ Last week, Govcom.org, the Amsterdam-based creator of info-political tools such as the IssueCrawler, celebrated its ten year anniversary. As part of the jubilee, a series of lectures called the 'Amsterdam New Media Summer Talks: Networked Content' was organized on August 11. The program, hosted by Richard Rogers, included talks by ... http://www.shirleyniemans.nl/studying-software/