Deep Search

Search engines most obviously Google lie at the heart of our digital lives. Their interfaces seem to be simple and neutral. Yet underneath operates a political philosophy, written in complex technical code. At stake is nothing less than how we, individually and collectively, find out about the world. Deep Search is the most profound set of statements and questions yet on the new universal machine, the search engine. Knowledge about the networks and the means of sorting them starts from the grounds of politics, culture and the formation of life rather than what is simply technically or legally possible. This book demands to be used. Matthew Fuller, Goldsmiths, University of London, author of Media Ecologies This collection gets to the heart of the most important issues concerning our global information ecosystem: Will the 'soft power' of one, two, or three corporations exert inordinate yet undetectable influence over what we consider important, beautiful, or true? What are the possibilities for resistance? What are the proper avenues for law, policy, and personal choices? This book walks us through these challenges like no other before it. Siva Vaidhyanathan, University of Virginia, author of The Googlization of Everything

Autorentext

Konrad Becker Konrad Becker ist ein österreichischer Medienforscher, Aktivist, Autor, Schauspieler, Komponist und Produzent im Bereich Kunst und elektronische Medien. Er lebt in Wien und ist Mitgründer des Instituts für neue Kulturtechnologien/t0, das er auch leitet, sowie Initiator von Public Netbase und World-Information.Org. Felix Stalder Felix Stalder ist ein Schweizer Kultur- und Medienwissenschaftler. Stalder ist Professor für Digitale Kultur und Theorien der Vernetzung an der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Mitglied des World-Information-Institutes in Wien und langjähriger Moderator von , einer internationalen Mailingliste zur Netzkritik. Er beschäftigt sich mit dem Wechselverhältnis von Gesellschaft, Kultur und Technologien und forscht u. a. zu Digitalität, Urheberrecht, Commons, Privatsphäre, Kontrollgesellschaft und Subjektivität.

Klappentext

Search engines - most obviously Google - lie at the heart of our digital lives. Their interfaces seem to be simple and neutral. Yet underneath operates a political philosophy, written in complex technical code. At stake is nothing less than how we, individually and collectively, find out about the world. Deep Search is the most profound set of statements and questions yet on the new universal machine, the search engine. Knowledge about the networks and the means of sorting them starts from the grounds of politics, culture and the formation of life rather than what is simply technically or legally possible. This book demands to be used. -Matthew Fuller, Goldsmiths, University of London, author of Media Ecologies This collection gets to the heart of the most important issues concerning our global information ecosystem: Will the 'soft power' of one, two, or three corporations exert inordinate yet undetectable influence over what we consider important, beautiful, or true? What are the possibilities for resistance? What are the proper avenues for law, policy, and personal choices? This book walks us through these challenges like no other before it. -Siva Vaidhyanathan, University of Virginia, author of The Googlization of Everything Wer sich über die wichtigste technische Errungenschaft des 20. Jahrhunderts und ihre politischen und sozialen Auswirkungen auf die folgenden schlaumachen will, der wird in diesem Sammelband fündig. Die Presse, Harald Klauhs