[ELECTRON] Fwd: DEEP SEARCH II CONFERENCE

Tue May 25 19:52:40 UTC 2010

Im giving Vienna a miss this year. Yeah drop facebook and join the Bridge 
They are not real friends anyway:)

On 25/05/2010 20:31, Simon Yuill wrote:
> 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 ....

Could prob make a film in the time it takes to fill in the app.)
>
>
>
>
>
> 25-05-2009
>
>   ++ World-Information Institute
>
> ******************************************************************
>
>   DEEP SEARCH II CONFERENCE
>
>   The digital future of finding out
>
>   May 28, Vienna 2010
>
> *******************************************************************
>
>   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
>
> *******************************************************************
>
>   DEEP SEARCH II, Vienna 2010
>
> ******************************************************************
>
>   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
>
>
> *******************************************************************
>
>
>   Friday 28.5.2010 10:30 – 20:00
>
>    Hotel Imperial Riding School Vienna
>
>    Ungargasse 60, 1030 Wien
>
>    Admission is free!
>
> *******************************************************************
>
>    Find detailed information about the event at:
>
>   http://world-information.org/deepsearch2
>
> *******************************************************************
>
>   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
>
> *******************************************************************
>
>
>    World-Information Institute
>    Tel./Mobile: +43 (1) 522 18 34
>    Operngasse 20b, A-1040 Vienna
>    E-Mail: office[@]t0.or.at
>
>    Web: http://t0.or.at
>    Web: http://world-information.org
>    Web: http://world-information.org/wii
>
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