Along with Siva's "Googlization of Everything" blog and Ralf's kind suggestion of my own (thanks), you might also want to check out the recent issue of the Journal of Business & Technology Law which was dedicated to Google. <http://www.law.umaryland.edu/journal/jbtl/current_issue.asp> Further, Dr. Amanda Spink and I recently edited a book of a broad range of scholarship on search engines, much of which discusses Google: "Web Search: Multidisciplinary Perspectives" (it is pricey - ask your library to acquire it :) <http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information +retrieval/book/978-3-540-75828-0> The associated bibliographies from these texts might prove fruitful, as well as the bibliography of ethical and privacy dimensions of web search engines I've started to assemble here: <http:// michaelzimmer.org/2007/06/30/scholarship-on-privacy-and-search-engines/> Good luck! Michael. ----- Michael Zimmer, PhD Microsoft Fellow, Information Society Project Yale Law School e: michael.zimmer@yale.edu w: http://michaelzimmer.org On Mar 17, 2008, at 2:34 PM, Ralf Bendrath wrote:

Stéphane Couture schrieb:

...

i am currently writing a small and general public article about the importance of Google and its "imperialism", both economically and in our daily Internet practices. I am thinking now about covering the monopolistic tendencies of Google as well as some concerns around privacy issues.

Please let me know when the article is published.

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i will be happy if anybody can refer me to more extensive and academic work that has already been done around Google.

Have a look at Michael Zimmer's blog. He has written some good papers and blog posts about the privacy aspects.

http://michaelzimmer.org/category/search-engines/google/

Best, Ralf

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Hello, you might be interested in Matt Zook's paper, focusing in particularly at Google's strategy on maps and local listings, Zook, M. and M. Graham. (2007). The Creative Reconstruction of the Internet: Google and the Privatization of Cyberspace and DigiPlace. GeoForum. Volume 38, Issue 6, November 2007, Pages 1322-1343 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2007.05.004 cheers martin

-----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Stéphane Couture Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 6:08 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Google "imperialism"

Hi,

i am currently writing a small and general public article about the importance of Google and its "imperialism", both economically and in our daily Internet practices. I am thinking now about covering the monopolistic tendencies of Google as well as some concerns around privacy issues.

i will be happy if anybody can refer me to more extensive and academic work that has already been done around Google. Of course, any other ideas are also welcome!

Stéphane Couture Ph.D. student Laboratoire de communication médiatisée par ordinateur (LabCMO) Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (CIRST) Université du Québec à Montréal http://stephanecouture.info _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org

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