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Transparency on the Net: Research on Search Engines

Johannes Ringheim — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:03:00 +0100

Professor Marcel Machill, Chair of Journalism and International Media Systems University of Leipzig, held this talk at the University of Bergen 4. December 2006.

“Søkemotorer spiller en stadig viktigere rolle for tilgang til og utvelgelse av informasjon, og fungerer som sentrale dørvoktere til informasjon på nettet. Dette påvirker også rollen til de tradisjonelle mediene. I denne gjesteforelesningen vil professor Marcel Machill presentere deler av sin forskning om konsekvensene av denne utviklingen. Machill er en internasjonalt ledende forsker på den samfunnsmessige betydningen av søkemotorer, og har gitt ut flere bøker om emnet. I forelesningen vil han diskutere et bredt spekter av spørsmål knyttet til søkemotorenes rolle: fordelingen av markedet for søkemotorer; søkemotorer fra et brukerperspektiv; søkemotorenes rolle i informasjonsutvelgelse og –tilgang; filtrering og tilgang til uønsket innhold; maktforhold mellom ulike aktører i søkemarkedet. Avslutningsvis vil Machill diskutere søkemotorer i et mediepolitisk perspektiv: bør søkemotorer reguleres på linje med andre medier?”
(tekst: Dag Elgesem)

Journalistik an der Universitaet Leipzig ::

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INFOMEVI344 - Seminar X

Johannes Ringheim — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 19:47:00 +0100

Terje Rasmussen: “Virtuality and Digital Reality II”. The lecture draws some conclusions based on the lectures of the course, with an emphasis on methodological problems.

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INFOMEVI344 - Seminar IX

Johannes Ringheim — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 19:59:00 +0100

Lars Nyre: “Media Change Mechanisms. Music Recording as a Historical Example”. The lecture discusses various claims about change in the media, ranging from technological to social determinism. This perspective is combined with normative theories of change; that is, pointing out socially desirable developments.

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INFOMEVI344 - Seminar VII

Johannes Ringheim — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:24:00 +0100

Barbara Gentikow: “Transformation of Broadcasting: From Dissemination to Storage”. After an initial period of hyping ‘interactive television', the ongoing debate concentrates more on new possibilities for storing and accessing television material. This fundamental transformation is presented in this lecture.

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INFOMEVI344 - Seminar VI

Johannes Ringheim — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:06:00 +0200

Andreas Opdahl: “Ontologies and the Semantic Web”.

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INFOMEVI344 - Seminar V

Johannes Ringheim — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:54:00 +0200

Dag Elgesem: “Deliberative Technologies and Small World Networks”.

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INFOMEVI344 - Seminar IV

Johannes Ringheim — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 23:09:00 +0200

Barbara Gentikow: “Towards a Theory of Cultural Techniques”. Both the production and the reception of media can be seen as techniques or skills with important social and cultural implications. What kind of techniques do our day's media afford, and what kinds of literacies do they demand?

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INFOMEVI344 - Seminar III

Johannes Ringheim — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:53:00 +0200

Lars Nyre: “Medium Theory inspired by McLuhan”. This lecture presents the tradition often called “The Toronto School” or medium theory, where Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan and Joshua Meyrowitz are important writers.

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INFOMEVI344 - Seminar II

Johannes Ringheim — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:41:00 +0200

Terje Rasmussen: “Virtuality and Digital Reality I”. The lecture discusses the methodological relationship between the concepts of the real and the virtual, based on selected chapters from Steve Woolgar (ed.) (2002) Virtual Society? Technology, Cyberbole, Reality.

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Where are we in the philosophy of information?

Sverre Helge Bolstad — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:37:00 +0200

21.06.06, University of Bergen, Norway
Luciano Floridi: “Where are we in the philosophy of information?”
(Part I, introduction to PI)

Luciano Floridi, University of Oxford, is a philosopher and has worked with the concept of information and philosophical questions connected to information technology in several books and articles. He is a pioneer in the field and has, through his activities, contributed greatly to defining the field of philosophy of information (PI). Luciano Floridi has written the book Philosophy and computing (1999) and he is the editor of The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of computing and information (2004).

In this podcast from a seminar at the University of Bergen he talks about the foundations of the philosophy of informationt and what PI is, and why we need it in a “databased” society. He talks about dimensions of information and goals of the philosophy of information.

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Wikipedia, wikia and free culture

Sverre Helge Bolstad — Mon, 29 May 2006 19:28:00 +0200

29.05.06, University of Bergen, Norway
Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia, Wikia and free culture

Jimmy Wales, the founder of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia talks about Wikipedia and sisterprojects like Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikinews and the Wiki commons. Wales emphasize the importance of wikipedia as a social innovation rather then a technological one. Design of wikipedia is a design of community and the “free-form nature of the wiki software lets the community determine how to interact”. Wikipedia is one of the “Top 20” sites of the internet and Wales has called Wikipedia “an effort to create and distribute a multilingual free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language.” (wikipedia)

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The Theory of Cultural Techniques, INFOMEVI344

Sverre Helge Bolstad — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 20:58:00 +0100

Session 5. Friday October 7, 12.15-14.00
Barbara Gentikow: The Theory of Cultural Techniques

About the master course INFOMEVI344:
“This course aims to provide students with the theoretical grounding necessary to understand the processes of change in ICT and media technologies, and to assess public discourse about them. Much of the course will be oriented to the practical features of individual media technologies, primarily the Internet and digital media.
The lectures and literature will address modern media and technological cultures. We will discuss the social, economical and material forces influencing media change. We will ask: How can we understand technology both as a cultural force and a cultural consequence? How should we understand the relationships among cultural, political and technological change?
The course combines perspectives from information science and media studies, and aims to build and reinforce common theoretical frameworks for research at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies.”

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Media and Technology in Everyday Life. A Case Study of Digital Television. INFOMEVI344

Sverre Helge Bolstad — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 11:35:00 +0100

Session 10. Friday October 21, 12.15-14.00
Barbara Gentikow: Media and Technology in Everyday Life. A Case Study of Digital Television.

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Protection of Rigths Versus Freedom of Information in ICTs. INFOMEVI344

Sverre Helge Bolstad — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 13:19:00 +0100

Session 9. Thursday October 20, 10.15-12.00:
Dag Elgesem: Protection of Rigths Versus Freedom of Information in ICTs.

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