{"id":383,"date":"2016-11-16T23:23:06","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T22:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/das-dokumentarische.blogs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de\/?page_id=383"},"modified":"2023-01-09T12:35:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T11:35:53","slug":"robin-schrade","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/das-dokumentarische.blogs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de\/en\/kollegiat_innen\/robin-schrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Robin Schrade, Ph.D."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nUniversit\u00e4tsstr. 105
\n44789 Bochum
\nRoom: UNI 105, 3\/32<\/p>\n

E-Mail: robin.schrade@rub.de<\/p>\n

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Robin Schrade has been coordinator of the graduate school since September 2020. Current information about him can be found here<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Title of the Dissertation<\/u><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Whoever seeks, can also be found: Historical Problems of the organization of knowledge.<\/p>\n

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Project Description
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The comfortable search in the world wide web is currently sparking debates concerning the self-determination of the individual. Search engines like Google allow a general access to knowledge, but also provoke doubts and distrust: not just because the search results are manipulable, but especially because the searcher himself or herself must fear becoming an object of observation. Thus, each tracked search request points to an intention, each intention to a person: to a friend, a customer, a potential terrorist. The search becomes a trap: generating visibility and directing attention to an individual. Whoever seeks can also be found.<\/p>\n

This dissertation project will examine the extent to which the mechanisms of digital search technologies, oscillating between overview and surveillance, can be traced back to historical techniques of searching and finding. Inspired by Michel Foucault, search techniques will be read as mechanisms of power as well as knowledge. The focus is on the similarities and differences between current digital search engines on the world wide web and their analog predecessors.<\/p>\n

Within the scope of the analysis, various analog search techniques that have come into being since the beginning of the early modern period will be investigated and linked with the contemporary situation. These historical objects range from searching in books and libraries to the business ideas of urban intelligence offices to the dragnet investigations conducted by police departments. The goal is to examine how techniques of searching and finding influence the development of the modern knowledge society and its subjects.<\/p>\n

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Scholarly Career<\/u><\/strong><\/h3>\n