Registration and Welcome

Panel 1: Visions of Organizing the World

Google Before Google, or, On the History of Search
Chad Wellmon, Assistant Professor of German at the University of Virginia
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Critique of search and the problem of knowledge
Yuk Hui, PhD researcher of the Metadata Project in the Centre of Cultural Studies and Department of Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London.

Lunch Break

Panel 2: Sociometry, Networks and Classification

From Sociometry to Social Networks. Networking as Technique of the Social
Sebastian Giessmann, research fellow at the Excellence Cluster TOPOI in the cross- sectional group "Cultural Theory and its Genealogies", Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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Networked Campaigns: Traffic Tags and Cross Platform Analysis on the Web
Greg Elmer, Bell Globemedia Research Chair, Associate Professor of Radio TV Arts, and Director of the Infoscape Research Lab at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada
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15 min Break

Panel 3: Rent and Bias

Economic Bias in Search Results
Elizabeth von Couvering, recent PhD graduate, London School of Economics
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Surplus and the immaterial: political notes on the "industrial revolution of data"
Matteo Pasquinelli is a writer, curator and researcher working at the intersection of French philosophy, media culture and Italian post-operaismo at Queen Mary University of London
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30 min Break

Panel 4: Contextual Modelling

Beyond Keyword Search
dr mc schraefel, reader in the Intelligence Agents Multimedia (IAM) Group, University of Southampton, UK
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From a Tiny Island of Survey Data to the Ocean of Transactional Data
Karl H. Müller, Director of the Wiener Institute for Social Science Documentation and Methodology (WISDOM)
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Closing Discussion

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