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Pics & press coverage from APA eBusiness event
Last week we had a very lively discussion on new media – search engines and facebook – and privacy (see blog post below). Central questions were how these new online services use personal data to create profit, what privacy violations … continue reading
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Tagged market capitalism, net politics, privacy, regulation, search engine, social media
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Talk at eBusiness Community Event/ APA
Next week I’ll be giving the “Impulsreferat” at the eBusiness Community Event organized by the Austrian Press Agency (APA). I’m already curious how the Austrian eBusiness community will react to my rather critical reflections on corporate Internet services and their … continue reading
4th ICTs and Society-Conference 2012 or “marx is back”
Last week I attended an excellent conference in Uppsala/ Sweden organized by Christian Fuchs and colleagues. The conference was concerned with “Critique, Democracy, and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society” (all conference abstracts could be found online) or “Marx is … continue reading
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Tagged conference, critical theory, market capitalism, Marx, net politics
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“Black Box Suchmaschine” Video Archive
Yesterday we had a great event at the Museumsquartier in Vienna: our “Themenabend Black Box Suchmaschine” (see program below). For those who missed the event and can’t wait to watch it online (or parts of it ) we archived the … continue reading
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Tagged algorithm, Google, market capitalism, net politics, privacy, search engine, vienna
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“Algorithmic Ideology” accepted by Information, Communication & Society
My article “Algorithmic Ideology. How capitalist society shapes search engines” got accepted by the peer-reviewed journal Information, Communication & Society. It’s gonna be published in the special issue of the OII conference: A decade in Internet Time. Thanks to the … continue reading
unlike us #2 amsterdam
And yet another pretty cool event I’ll attend in March (8-10); without presenting though. It’s the second event of the Unlike Us Network initiated by Geert Lovink (Institute of Network Cultures/HvA, Amsterdam) and Korinna Patelis (Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol). … continue reading
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Tagged alternative technology, amsterdam, critical intervention, market capitalism, social media
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& uppsala in may
I just got an email that the abstract for my talk “Defining Algorithmic Ideology: Using ideology theories to understand and critique corporate search engines” has been accepted for presentation at the Critical Social Media/Information Society Conference in Uppsala. The keynote … continue reading
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Tagged conference, critical theory, Google, market capitalism, search engine
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merry xmas to myself!!!
Just before xmas I got the great great news that my 2-year research project “Glocal Search. Search technology at the intersection of global capitalism and local socio-political cultures” got funded by the Österreichische Nationalbank (OeNB). YAY. I’m really looking forward … continue reading
Posted in academic career, life
Tagged market capitalism, net politics, privacy, search engine
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goodtosee #10: unlike us & disobedient data bodies
A new network initiative has been circulated in mailing lists over the past couple of days. It’s called “Unlike Us. Understanding social media monopolies and their alternatives” (Concept: Geert Lovink (Institute of Network Cultures/HvA, Amsterdam) and Korinna Patelis (Cyprus University … continue reading
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Tagged critical intervention, manifest, market capitalism, social media
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Upcoming travels and events
Tomorrow morning I’ll go to Oxford to participate in the OII conference “A Decade in Internet Time“. The line-up of speakers looks very promising and includes big names such as Manuel Castells, Ted Nelson, Danah Boyd, and others. I’m looking … continue reading
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Tagged conference, digital methods, humlab, market capitalism, search engine
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