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Hilo: Map(s) of Google's Infrastructure(s) - Ruling Class Studies

now with results of workshop here: http://wiki.medialab-prado.es/index.php … ss_Studies

Ruling Class Studies (RCS) is a research project which aim is to produce critical theoretical instruments to measure the political, ethical and professional accountability of Google, Facebook, Amazon and eBay (GFAeB) to their proclaimed missions, advertised practices and to a world where their monopolies are taking root. (more about project here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/30054819/Ruli … h-proposal )

The first case study is production of the map of Google's technical infrastructure, analysis of its design, categorized by rules how Google governs users' and developers' access to their data, services and development platforms. The map covers the whole spectrum from trade secrets (e.g. distributed fs), commercial services (e.g. gdocs), nontransparent FLOSS development (Android) to open process of FLOSS (e.g. Chromium).

There are two main tracks of work here:
* collecting/aggregating, annotating and finally structuring data (I do some of these things from 2007. here: http://www.google.com/reader/shared/use … assstudies & http://www.diigo.com/user/marcell/rulingclassstudies or both together at: http://friendfeed.com/rulingclassstudies )
* representing the data. i hope we will be able to do that on google's very own infrastructure: e.g. http://code.google.com/apis/charttools/index.html )

I hope this project will be able to show how much Google:
* depends on
* builds on-top
* gives back to
* invests in
free software movement/projects (in comparison with their own closed source/trade secret infrastructure).
In the future I hope this project will be foundation for comparative analysis of Facebook's, Amazon's and eBay's technical infrastructures and their governance of users' and developers' access to their data, services and development platforms.


Together with collaborators I hope we will find the right methodology, instruments, concepts and final products to achieve the proclaimed goal.

I hope the team will gather together theorists, programmers and designers.

I'm Marcell Mars (aka Nenad Romic).
I like collaborative work and have experience in being in all roles in collaborations (listening, talking, working, hanging out smile).
My technical skills: python (http://www.snipdom.net), javascript (http://gitorious.org/protobox), gnu/linux administration (both physical and virtual appliances). I'm very advanced Internet user.

Together with others I founded Multimedia institute - mi2 in Zagreb, Croatia (http://www.mi2.hr) and 'hacklab in mama' (http://wiki.razmjenavjestina.org) and at the moment I'm researcher at Jan van Eyck (http://janvaneyck.nl) in Maastricht, The Netherlands.

More about me: http://protopage.com/kiberkomunist#l/about

Contact: ki.ber@kom.uni.st (I'm not afraid of spam because kom.uni.st is run on Google's infrastructure smile)

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Re: Map(s) of Google's Infrastructure(s) - Ruling Class Studies

Hi Marcell, I was reading your "Ruling Class Studies for Jan Van Eyck academy" and I really like the proposal. I think is very important to us, web users, undertanding the tools we use in ours everyday and how much it can influence our lives, or how many information about us they have, and many other questions...
I would like to help you with your project. I'm work with design to digital medias, today more with vídeo (editing and post-production) . I have paralel projects in arts with the group pelospublicos (www.pelospublicos.art.br,  sorry this is in portuguese...).
I can help you to research and translate this data to a better form to understanding this!! I going to continuing the research the material you posted above here.
Regards

Lilian
www.behance.net/llink
www.pelospublicos.art.br

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