[ELECTRON] Fwd: DEEP SEARCH II CONFERENCE

Tue May 25 20:09:12 UTC 2010

Nice link Simon.

I've been casually reading different posts / articles / whathaveyou  
about all this Facebook privacy uproar stuff.   I certainly think that  
there are a lot of issues that need to be critically addressed around  
all of this stuff.  Yet, I can't help but think alot of the noise is a  
bunch of people jumping on a trendy web-meme-bandwagon thingy.  I'd  
bet in the next month or so, 'nobody' will remember what all the fuss  
is about.

After all, Facebook has already said they are sorry.

Whatever happens, I won't be having a personal account there.    
Unsurprisingly, I'm not missing it (or the 400+ friends I left behind).

BTW,  the previous article on UMaine's blog on 'curated computing'  
might also be of interest to some on this list:

http://www.nmdnet.org/2010/05/17/now-ipads-are-curated-computing/

Hope everyone managed to produce a little vitamin D this weekend...

On 25 May 2010, at 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 ....
>
>
>
>
>
> 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
>
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