Hartmut Winkler

Hartmut Winkler (born 1953) has been a Professor of Media Studies, Media Theory and Media Arts at the University of Paderborn in Germany since April 1999. Winkler is influential in the field of digital media. His works include Switching/Zapping[1] (1991), Film Theory, Der Filmische Raum und der Zuschauer (1992) and Computers and Media Theory, Docuverse (1997). Another one of his works is "Search Engines: Metamedia on the Internet?"[2] (1998), where he attempts to explain how a search engine is a black box, that is, he tries to show that the system of input and output many viewers use is not a legitimate neutral source. He also discusses the position of power that search engines have over their users, the structural format that search engines are based on, and how language changes the perspective of the engines. He talks about how users do not actually understand how a search engine works and how it is structured, yet we make assumptions about its workings, not truly caring how or why it does what it does, as long as it delivers the information we seek.

Hartmut Winkler
Born
Hartmut Winkler

18 November 1953
Marburg, West Germany
NationalityGerman

Works
gollark: The regular 2D kind.
gollark: <@249056455552925697> You know tesselations of stuff in regular Euclidean geometry, where you have infinite grids of squares and triangles and hexagons and all that?
gollark: I don't actually understand the maths involved well enough to generate those myself, but I was reading the Wikipedia articles on it and thought "hmmm, these patterns are neat, I will use [search engine] image search to find a nice one to use as a profile picture".
gollark: It's actually some sort of tesselation of heptagons ~~in~~ and hexagons in hyperbolic geometry.
gollark: No, those tend to be translucent.

References
  • Winkler, Hartmut. "Search Engines: Metamedia On The Internet?" Nettime/Software (1998): 29-37.
  1. Winkler, Hartmut (1998). "Zapping: A case against context" (in German). Retrieved 21 November 2009.
  2. Winkler, Hartmut (1997). "Search engines" (in German). Retrieved 21 November 2009.
  3. marisoma (13 September 2008). "Review: Hartmut Winkler, Basiswissen Medien, 2008". Masters of Media. Retrieved 21 November 2009.
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