[ELECTRON] Fwd: DEEP SEARCH II CONFERENCE

[Simon Yuill]

I doubt many of us will have a chance to pop over to Vienna this week
but the events will be video-ed and should be online shortly after.
Might be of interest to some.

Also, for Ben and all of you thinking about a post-Facebook world:

http://colonos.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/the-one-we-have-been-waiting-for-your-guide-to-the-facebook-revolt-of-2010/

also has some critical discussion about the Diaspora system.


best wishes
Si


PS - my previous posting was specifically for Bob and the Games Monitor
crew ....





25-05-2009

 ++ World-Information Institute

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 DEEP SEARCH II CONFERENCE

 The digital future of finding out

 May 28, Vienna 2010

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 The automatic classification of data, its indexing, and its evaluation
are at the heart  of new communication environments. What lies beneath
is not just a drive to organize the world's information, but also to
classify human relations: from the management of the modern workplace
and consumers in mass societies, to the bio-political management of the
network society. Sociometric algorithms quantify all areas of life in
order to mathematically model and predict human behavior. In today's
booming world of data mining, algorithmic methods based on large digital
datasets are routinely used for determining political influence and
analyzing social dispositions or contagious trends. Digital transactions
provide huge amounts of private and semi-private data on personal
preferences that are harvested to customize and transform everyday
experiences.

A key nexus is provided by search engines, multi-purpose tools present
in many dimensions of life, and the increasingly comprehensive
environments of services offered by search engine providers.
Understanding search-based societies does not only require an analysis
of the deep history of the storing and indexing of information, but also
the study of complex new forms of retrieval and data analysis. This
includes the new position of search engines in a top-down control matrix
as well as "bottom-up" recommendation systems, "push-search",
folksonomies and the presumed wisdom of crowds. Search can only be
understood if the still evolving redistribution of power in digital
networks is addressed in both its centralizing and de-centralizing
dimensions.


 http://world-information.org/deepsearch2

 In cooperation with IRFS 2010

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 DEEP SEARCH II, Vienna 2010

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 The conference Deep Search II focuses on key issues in this fast and
dynamic field.  First, we want to highlight the historical dimensions of
our attempts to organize information and people. Second, we want to
investigate the politics of search, conflict and dimensions of power,
and, finally, future classification schemes beyond search, tracking and
social recommendation systems, including new forms of pattern
recognition in large data sets.

11:00
  Visions of Organizing the World
14:00
  Sociometry, Networks and Classification
15:45
  Rent and Bias
17:45
  Contextual Modelling

 With:

 Chad Wellmon, Yuk Hui, Sebastian Giessmann, Greg Elmer, Elizabeth von
Couvering, Matteo Pasquinelli, mc Schraefel, Karl H.  Müller

 Conference Editors:

 Konrad Becker und Felix Stalder, World-Information Institute


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 Friday 28.5.2010 10:30 – 20:00

  Hotel Imperial Riding School Vienna

  Ungargasse 60, 1030 Wien

  Admission is free!

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  Find detailed information about the event at:

 http://world-information.org/deepsearch2

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 Second Edition out:

 Deep Search - The Politics of Search beyond Google

 Konrad Becker/ Felix Stalder [eds.] Studienverlag & Transaction
Publishers, 2009.  220 pages.

 English: ISBN 978-3-7065-4795-6  German: ISBN 978-3-7065-4794-9


 + Upcoming:


 Critical Strategies in Art and Media: Perspectives of New Cultural
Practices

 Konrad Becker, Jim Fleming (eds.) Autonomedia 2010

 ISBN 978-1-57027-214-1

 http://world-information.org/wii/critical_strategies

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