Prof. Hendrik Speck - University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern

     Hendrik Speck is a Professor of Digital Media at the University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern / Department of Computer Sciences/ Interactive Media and head of the Information Architecture/ Search Engine Laboratory. He taught and lectured at the European Graduate School (Ada Byron Chair), New School for Social Research (New York), Columbia University (New York), Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart, International School of New Medial (Lübeck), and University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern.

     Professor Speck, based in New York and Germany, is a regular speaker and conference panelist; he is the author of many articles and (co)authored several books including Medien auf Abruf - Folgen der Individualisierung für die Kommunikationsgesellschaft. Vistas. 2007, ISBN: 3891584482, Die Macht der Suchmaschinen / The Power of Search Engines. Halem Verlag. 2007, ISBN 3938258330; Suchen und Finden im Internet. Springer Verlag. 2007, ISBN: 9783540382232, and Die Google Gesellschaft. Transcript. 2005, ISBN: 3899423054. His work is focusing on media theory and philosophy, information operations and systems, online marketing, media management, intellectual property, open source, e-Learning, cyberwar, netwar, ethical, social and legal implications and limitations.

     He has been working as an E-commerce consultant and was appointed CIO, Assistant Director and Ada Byron Chair of the Media and Communications department of the European Graduate School. This position includes the responsibility for the development of all web activities, policies and associations. Prof. Speck has designed distance and elearning systems, has developed online/viral marketing strategies and has worked on information architecture projects for governments, corporate clients and academic institutions. Hendrik Speck is working as a consultant for Quaero and Theseus, exploring the next generation of intelligent search, information retrieval and visualization systems for the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. Professor Speck is a Fulbright and DAAD Scholar, and recipient of several other scholarships from Heinrich Böll Stiftung, New School University (New York), and European Graduate School.

Cooperation & Engagements

     We are always looking for interesting research projects and partners, especially involving private-public-partnerships (Drittmittelprojekte), master and bachelor theses for our students with a background in computer sciences, social networks, search engine optimization, seo, social, mobile, and viral marketing. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have interesting projects, wishes or concrete proposals, we will be happy to assist you and inform our students about your offer.

     Prof. Speck, our team members and students are also available for speaking engagements, workshops, conferences, and forums held by academic institutions, think tanks, professional or industry trade groups, or independent organizations. We offer training for executives and managers and deliver competent high-impact presentations, which can be used for public relations, marketing, strategy, and business development in public or corporate environments.

     The following AV requirements and accommodations will prove useful during speaking engagements, presentations and workshops: video beamer, wireless microphone, electricity, and a glass of water. To avoid conflicts with our research, teaching and other activities it is recommended to notify us as soon as possible. Feel free to contact us to schedule a speaking engagement or request additional information.

Contact

Prof. Hendrik Speck
University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern
Department of Computer Sciences
Amerikastrasse 1
66482 Zweibrücken
Germany

Office: Building O, Room O 017

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Works & Publications

Speck, Hendrik. Attention Based Economies - The Economic Value of Google Scholar and Co. 9th International Bielefeld Conference. University of Bielefeld. February 3 - 5, 2009, Bielefeld (Germany).

Speck, Hendrik. Hawaii Program 2008-09. European Graduate School. Turtle Bay Resort Oahu. January 3 - 20, 2009, Hawai (United States).

Speck, Hendrik. The Sociology of Social Networks. Commercial Communities Conference. Technical University of Berlin. Institute for Sociology. October 30 - 31, 2008, Berlin (Germany).

Speck, Hendrik. Social and Beyond. Space and Truth. Symposium. Panel: Deconstructed Truth. Zürcher Hochschule der Künste - Zurich University of the Arts. October 9 - 1, 2008, Zurich (Switzerland).

Speck, Hendrik. Social Communities und Datenschutz. Summer Academy 2008. Datenschutzakademie Schleswig-Holstein and Unabhängige Landeszentrum für Datenschutz (ULD). September 1, 2008, Kiel (Germany).

Speck, Hendrik. Privacy in Social Networks / Privatheit in sozialen Netzwerken. Nacht der Informatik 2008. University Koblenz-Landau. Juni 13, 2008, Koblenz (Germany).

Speck, Hendrik. Social Network Analysis - Borderline Areas of Research. Technical University of Berlin. Institute for Sociology. May 8, 2008. Berlin (Germany).

Speck, Hendrik. Zukäufe im Web 2.0 : Ist die Hoffnung in User Generated Content berechtigt? Cologne Web Content Forum. April 24, 2008, Cologne (Germany).

Speck, Hendrik. Interview mit Prof. Speck. Teil I: Proletarisierung und biologisches Verfallsdatum von StudiVZ., Teil II: Imbalance von Rechten und Pflichten und die StudiVZ-Abmahnung, and Teil III: Soziotechnischer Angriff auf die "walled gardens" der Social Networks. Oliver Gassner. Personal Blog. April 14, 2008.

Speck, Hendrik. Search.Market. 10th InetBib Conference. April 9 - 11, 2008, Würzburg (Germany).

Speck, Hendrik. Local Search and other Mysteries. Search Marketing Expo - SMX Munich. April 8 - 9, 2008, Munich (Germany).

Speck, Hendrik. The Relevance of Social Media. Social-Networking/Social-Bookmarking-Platforms Search Marketing Expo - SMX Munich. April 8 - 9, 2008, Munich (Germany).

Speck, Hendrik and Frédéric Philipp Thiele. Suchmaschinen, Privatsphäre und andere Illusionen. Datenschleuder. Chaos Computer Club. No. 92. 2008. March 2008.

Speck, Hendrik. Der Digitale Pranger wartet auf jeden. Heilbronner Stimme. March 19, 2008.

Speck, Hendrik. THESEUS Talente: Ideen für das Internet der Zukunft. Cebit. future Talk. Panel. March 3, 2008, 12:00am - 1:00pm, Hanover (Germany). (Photos and Video)

Speck, Hendrik. Gastbeitrag von Prof. Hendrik Speck: Teil 1: Social Networks. Einführung. Deutsche StartUps. February 27, 2008 and Gastbeitrag von Prof. Hendrik Speck: Teil 2: Social Networks müssen Verantwortung tragen. Deutsche StartUps. February 28, 2008.

Speck, Hendrik. Social Networks. Large Scale Communities at the Intersection of Information Retrieval and Sociology. Fraunhofer Institute. Schloss Birlinghoven. February 11, 2008, Sankt Augustin (Germany).

Speck, Hendrik. Das Theseus Programm – ein netzwerkorientiertes Entwicklungsmodell. Learntec. January 29-31, 2008, Karlsruhe (Germany).

Speck, Hendrik. Theseus Talente 2008. Theseus. BMWi. Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. October 23, 2007, Berlin (Germany).

Speck, Hendrik. Social Network Analysis. Relationships in Social Networks. Karlsruhe Symposium for Knowledge Management (Karlsruher Symposium für Wissensmanagement). Arbeitskreis Wissensmanagement. October 10, 2007, Karlsruhe (Germany).

Speck, Hendrik. Search Engines, Monopolies, and Doubleclick. A Tale about Mergers and Acquisitions. Search Engine Congress 2007. Suma e.V. September 20, 2007, Berlin (Germany).

Speck, Hendrik and Frédéric Philipp Thiele. Social Network Analysis. Business models, Explanations, Attributes and Features of Social Networks. CeBIT. WeblogCamp@CeBIT. March 18, 2007, Hanover (Germany).

Speck, Hendrik. Was kommt, was geht, was bleibt? IZB Management Forum. March 1, 2007. Munich (Germany).

Speck, Hendrik. Search Engine Marketing - Was geht, was lohnt?. Euroforum. The Future of Search. Innovationsbereitstellung als Wachstumsmarkt. February 22-23, 2007. Hamburg (Germany).

Mauruschat, Ania. Suchmaschine Wissen Macht. Feldforschungen zur digitalen Kunst & Gesellschaft. Bayern2Radio. Bayerischer Rundfunk. Hörspiel & Medienkunst. January 26, 2007. Munich (Germany)

Giesecke, Gerald. Alles Wissen der Welt auf einen Klick? ZDF Aspekte. Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen. November 24, 2006. Berlin (Germany).

Speck, Hendrik. Highlights und Entwicklungen im Online Marketing. Marketing Club Lübeck. 2. Lübecker Marketing-Forum. November 23, 2006. Lübeck (Germany).

Speck, Hendrik. Nichts 2.0. Der Hype um Web 2.0. c//mag. hw medien oHG. No. 4/2006, pp. 58-61, November 2006.

Speck, Hendrik. Suchmaschinen. Inhalte suchen, Werbung finden. Effektivität und Tücken der Suchmaschinenwerbung. Medientage München. October 19, 2006. Munich (Germany).

Speck, Hendrik and Frédéric Philipp Thiele. Suchmaschinen: Landschaften, Märkte und Transparenz. Gemeinnütziger Verein zur Förderung der Suchmaschinen-Technologie und des freien Wissenszugangs. 3. SuMa-eV Forum. Suchmaschinen: In Technik, Wirtschaft und Medienkunst. September 28, 2006. Berlin (Germany).

ZDF. Big Google – das Geheimnis der Suchmaschine. ZDF Nachtstudio. Talkshow. Invited Guests: Stefan Keuchel, Sybille Krämer, Kathrin Passig, Wolfgang Sander-Beuermann, and Hendrik Speck. September 17, 2006. Berlin (Germany).

Speck, Hendrik and Frédéric Philipp Thiele. Hacking the Box. Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation. Die wachsende Macht der Suchmaschinen im Internet. Auswirkungen auf User, Medienpolitik und Medienbusiness. June 26-27, 2006. Berlin (Germany).

Salden Julia. Die Macht einer Suchmaschine. NDR. Zapp. June 7, 2006. Documentary. 27 min 31 sec./ Script.

Speck, Hendrik. Digitale Machtübernahme – Weltherrscher Google? Netzwerk Recherche. Annual Conference. (Mehr Qualität durch Recherche – Von der Kür zur Pflicht.) NDR. May 20, 2006. Hamburg (Germany).

Speck, Hendrik. Suchen und Finden als Bindeglied im Productportfolio. Münchner Kreis. Übernationale Vereinigung für Kommunikationsforschung. Suchen und Finden im Internet. Fachkonferenz. February 1, 2006. Munich (Germany).

Speck, Hendrik, Wolfgang Sander-Beuermann, and Frédéric Philipp Thiele. Search Engines - Oracles of the Information Society. The Saga continues: Search Engines, Technology, Politics, Prostitution, Corruption, Privacy and Espionage. December 27- 30, 2005. Chaos Computer Club / 22nd Chaos Communication Congress. Private Investigations/ Berlin (Germany). Chaos Radio Video Recordings or Google Video.

Speck, Hendrik. An Online Marketing Guide for Educational Institutions. Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) / ED-Media 2005. World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications. June 27- July 2, 2005. Montréal, Québec (Canada)

Speck, Hendrik. Spam, Con Men, Degree Mills - The Other Side of Distance Learning. Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) / ED-Media 2005. World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications. June 27- July 2, 2005. Montréal, Québec (Canada)

Hilberer, Michael and Hendrik Speck. Development of Algorithms for Web spam Detection based on Structure and Link Analysis. International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) / e-Society 2005. June 27 - 30, 2005. Qawra, (Malta)

Speck, Hendrik and Frédéric Philipp Thiele. Google, Gossip, PR-ostitution. Das Geschäft einer Suchmaschine. in: Lehmann, Kai and Michael Schetsche (editors). Die Google-Gesellschaft. Transcript. April 2005, 400 pages, ISBN: 3899423054, Buy it at Amazon.de.

Speck, Hendrik and Frédéric Philipp Thiele. Suchmaschinenpolitik. Google is watching you!. Chaos Computer Club / 21st Chaos Communication Congress. December 27, 2004. Berlin (Germany)

Speck, Hendrik. Evernet Open Source Global Coverage (With SSID WLan(d)Scape). 2nd Workshop on Applications of Wireless Communications (WAWC'04). August 4-6, 2004. Lappeenranta (Finland)

Speck, Hendrik, Frédéric Philipp Thiele, and Sven Wagenhöfer. Search Engine Politics. Web Search Engines Anatomy, Business Principles And Politics. IEEE Society / International Conference on Politics and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications (PISTA 2004). July 18–21, 2004. Orlando (USA)

Speck, Hendrik and Niko Bender. Evernet — Global Wireless Lan(D)Scapes. IEEE Society / International Conference on Politics and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications (PISTA 2004). July 18–21, 2004. Orlando (USA)

Speck, Hendrik. The Digital Waste Dump or The Nationality of Cyberspace. IEEE Society / International Conference on Politics and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications (PISTA 2004). July 18–21, 2004. Orlando (USA)

Speck, Hendrik and Niko Bender. SSID Wlan(d)Scape & Glo-Cal Networks. IEEE Society / 8th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2004). July 18–21, 2004. Orlando (USA)

Speck, Hendrik, Frédéric Philipp Thiele, and Sven Wagenhöfer. Distributed Information Retrieval Systems — The Next Generation. IEEE Society / 8th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2004). July 18–21, 2004. Orlando (USA)

Speck, Hendrik, Frédéric Philipp Thiele, and Sven Wagenhöfer. The Big Leap Netward — A New Generation of Educational Information Retrieval. IEEE Society / International Conference on Education and Information Systems: Technologies and Applications (EISTA 2004). July 18–21, 2004. Orlando (USA)

Speck, Hendrik. Wireless LAN(D)Scapes - Evernet Authentication. TRLabs/IEEE Society. Wireless 2004. 16th International Conference on Wireless Communications. July 12–14, 2004. Calgary , Alberta (Canada)

Speck, Hendrik, Frédéric Philipp Thiele, and Sven Wagenhöfer. Evaluation Strategies for Web Based Education Systems. Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) / ED-Media 2004. World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications. June 21-26, 2004. Lugano (Switzerland)

Speck, Hendrik, Frédéric Philipp Thiele, and Sven Wagenhöfer. A Big Leap Forward - The Next Step of Educational Information Retrieval. Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) / ED-Media 2004. World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications. June 21-26, 2004. Lugano (Switzerland)

Speck, Hendrik and Niko Bender. SSID Wlan(d)Scape. IEEE Society / Sarnoff Symposium on Advances in Wired and Wireless Communications. April 26- 27, 2004. Princeton (USA)

Speck, Hendrik, Frédéric Philipp Thiele, and Sven Wagenhöfer. Valhalla - Distributed Information Architecture. IEEE Society / 6th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology (ICACT 2004). February 9-11, 2004. Phoenix Park (Republic of Korea)

Speck, Hendrik. Nothing To Claim? There Is No Such Thing As Intellectual Property. IEEE Society / International Symposium on Technology and Society ISTAS'02. June 6 & 8 2002. Raleigh (USA)

Speck, Hendrik. The Transformations of the Public Intellectual. DIAC 02 - Shaping the Network Society/ Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. May 16 & 19, 2002. Seattle (USA)

Speck, Hendrik. Obedience and Ethics in Information Warfare. A firewall for ethical conduct in information warfare. Royal Military Academy. June 27 & 29, 2001. Brussels (Belgium)

Speck, Hendrik. Riding the Wave - Branding and Marketing a Distance Learning Institution. Prepared for NUTN 2001/ National University Telecommunications Network. June 16 & 19, 2001. Denver (U.S.A.)

Speck, Hendrik. Is There Such a Thing as Intellectual Property? Or: Plato got no Stock Options. Critical Themes in Media Studies/ New School University. April 21 2001. New York (U.S.A.)

Speck, Hendrik. Reengineering the Knowledge Networks. Prepared for Technology in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. August 25 & 27, 2000. Samos Island (Greece)

Speck, Hendrik. The War of Art & Desire, Dignity, Honor and Ethics in Information Warfare. Prepared for University of Lüneburg/ Society of Information Sciences. July 20 & 22, 2000. Lüneburg (Germany)

Speck, Hendrik. Disturbances in the Communication Chain. North American Society for Social Philosophy. July 20 & 23, 2000. Waterloo (Canada)

Speck, Hendrik. Shaping the Network Society: The Future of the Public Sphere in Cyberspace. NUTN 2000/ National University Telecommunications Network. June 24 & 27 2000. Toronto (Canada)

Speck, Hendrik. Media during Information Warfare - Attributes and Coverage. Critical Themes in Media Studies New School University. April 29, 2000. New York (U.S.A.)

Speck, Hendrik. About Toywars and Toysoldiers - Red Alert in Cyberspace. United States Naval Academy Foreign Affairs Conference. April 17 & 20, 2000. Annapolis, Maryland (U.S.A.)

Speck, Hendrik. Binary Insurrections - Civil Disobedience in Cyberspace. State University of New York. March 31 & April 2, 2000. Stony Brook (U.S.A.)

Speck, Hendrik. Privacy: New Media Technologies. New School University. March 29 2000. New York (U.S.A.)

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Books

Medien auf Abruf.
Vistas.
2007.
312 pages.
Language: German.
ISBN: 3891584482

Power of Search Engines. Halem.
2007.
352 pages.
Language: English/German.
ISBN: 3938258330

Suchen und Finden im Internet.
Springer.
2006.
233 pages.
Language: German.
ISBN: 3540382232

Die Google Gesellschaft, 2005
Transcript.
2005.
408 pages.
Language: German.
ISBN: 3899423054

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Press & Interviews

Bager, Jo. Theseus-Talente ausgezeichnet. Heise. June 17, 2008.

Sommer-Guist, Christine. StudiVZ - Deutschlands größte Internet-Community für Studenten. Goethe Institut. May 2008. or Sommer-Guist, Christine. StudiVZ - Germany's Largest Social Networking Platform for Students. Goethe Institut. May 2008.

Down Jones Newswires. Web Content Forum: Wie sieht das Netz von Morgen aus? Down Jones Newswires.. April 16, 2008.

Gassner, Oliver. Interview mit Prof. Speck. Teil I: Proletarisierung und biologisches Verfallsdatum von StudiVZ., Teil II: Imbalance von Rechten und Pflichten und die StudiVZ-Abmahnung, and Teil III: Soziotechnischer Angriff auf die "walled gardens" der Social Networks. Oliver Gassner. Personal Blog. April 14, 2008.

Schirmann, Melanie. Soziale Netzwerke. Wie das Internet Menschen zusammenbringt. Hörzu. March 28, 2008.

Speck, Hendrik and Frédéric Philipp Thiele. Suchmaschinen, Privatsphäre und andere Illusionen. Die Datenschleuder. Chaos Computer Club. No. 92. 2008. March 2008.

Speck, Hendrik. Der Digitale Pranger wartet auf jeden. Heilbronner Stimme. March 19, 2008.

Brückner, Florian. Noten im Netz. Deutschland stimmt ab. Frankfurter Rundschau. March 13, 2008.

Pham, Khuê. Imagepflege im Internet. Die Retter des guten Rufs. Spiegel. March 7, 2008.

Lochmaier, Lothar. Datenklau in sozialen Netzen: Wem gehört mein Adressbuch? ZDNet.de February 29, 2008.

Speck, Hendrik. Gastbeitrag von Prof. Hendrik Speck: Teil 1: Social Networks. Einführung. Deutsche StartUps. February 27, 2008 and Gastbeitrag von Prof. Hendrik Speck: Teil 2: Social Networks müssen Verantwortung tragen. Deutsche StartUps. February 28, 2008.

Henrichs, Ina. Das Internet vergisst nichts. Kölner Stadt Anzeiger. February 21, 2008.

Banse, Philip, Andreas Baum, and Katja Bigalke. KR_141 - Hendrik Speck. Küchenradio. Podcast. February 19, 2008, 77:45min.

Ruprecht, Anne. Datenstrip im Netz - Der Missbrauch persönlicher Profile. Zapp. Norddeutscher Rundfunk. February 13, 2008, 9:00min.

Ertl, Sabine. Facebook, auf immer und ewig? Bei Facebook kann man sich nicht so schnell freikaufen. Wiener Zeitung. February 13, 2008.

Schmitt, Stefan. Suche: Erfolg. Zeit Wissen. Technikserie. No. 2 2008, February / March 2008.

Glasenapp, Oliver. Kampf ums Monopol. Deutsche Welle. February 5, 2008, 02:39min.

Settele, Claude. Das Schlüsselloch Internet. Suchmaschine serviert Personendaten. Neue Zürcher Zeitung. February 5, 2008.

Ehlert, Jan. Microsoft will Yahoo kaufen. Es geht um Marken und soziale Netzwerke. Tagesschau. February 1, 2008.

Eilers, Carsten. KW 05/08: Standpunkt Sicherheit. Entwickler Magazin. Column: About Security. January 28, 2008.

Auer, Matthias. Beziehungen sind alles – auch im Web 2.0. Die Presse. January 28, 2008.

Patalong, Frank, Konrad Lischka and Matthias Kremp. Social Networks. Der Fall Kerviel und die ungezügelten Exhibitionisten. Der Spiegel. January 26, 2008.

Thadeusz, Jörg. Die Profis. Gefahren Sozialer Netzwerke. Radio Eins. Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg RBB. January 26, 2008.

radiomultikulti. Redaktion FrühStück. Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg RBB. January 25, 2008, 9:13 am.

Bild. Sicherheitsexperten raten: Vorsicht in sozialen Online-Netzwerken. Bild. January 25, 2008.

Welt. Wie Google seine Nutzer ausspäht. EU-Datenschützer schauen argwöhnisch auf die Suchmaschine. Welt. January 24, 2008.

Handelsblatt. Online-Netzwerke. Unstillbarer Datenhunger. Handelsblatt. January 22, 2008.

Zschunke, Peter. 'Stasi' im Internet. Netzwerk-User geben freiwillig massenweise intime Daten preis. Associated Press. Heute. Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen. January 22, 2008, or Zschunke, Peter. Soziale Netze haben mehr Informationen, als die Stasi je hatte. Der Standard. January 22, 2008; or Zschunke, Peter. Soziale Netzwerke. Mehr Informationen als die Stasi je hatte. Frankfurter Rundschau. January 22, 2008; or Zschunke, Peter. Soziale Netzwerke. Mehr Informationen als die Stasi je hatte. Stern. January 23, 2008, or Zschunke, Peter. Mehr Informationen als die Stasi. Berliner Morgenpost. January 23, 2008; or Zschunke, Peter. Millionen von Teilnehmer geben Intimes auf Online-Plattformen preis. Mehr Daten als die Stasi. Heidenheimer Zeitung. February 8, 2008

Höfer, Anja. Wikia Search. Südwestrundfunk. SWR2. Journal am Mittag. January 7, 2008

Banse, Philip. Leuchtturm oder Kerze. Bundesregierung plant mit Theseus das Internet 2.0. Deutschlandradio. Computer und Kommunikation. December 15, 2007.

Inforadio. Ich bin dann mal web (2.0). Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg. Inforadio. Druck & Blog. November 10, 2007.

Inforadio. Der zweite Hype des Internets - diesmal auf solideren Beinen? Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg. Inforadio. Interview. November 8, 2007.

Radler, Christian. Microsoft-Einstieg bei Facebook. Das hat nichts mit einer Web-2.0-Blase zu tun. Tagesschau. October 25, 2007.

Hefter, Bernd. Vernetzt, verwanzt, verloren - Verhängnisvolle Spuren im Internet. SWR cont.ra. SWR1 Thema heute. October 15, 2007.

Lochmaier, Lothar. Google gegen die EU: Droht ein zweites Microsoft-Desaster? Schneeballsystem in Gefahr? ZDNet. September 28, 2007; Lochmaier, Lothar. Datenschutz als Stolperstein? ZDNet. September 28, 2007.

Kerkmann, Christof. Das Privatleben wird immer öffentlicher. Spock findet Faszinierendes. Bönnigheimer Zeitung or Heidenheimer Neue Presse. September 11, 2007.

Kerkmann, Christof. Privates im Internet birgt Gefahren. Digitaler Exhibitionismus. Wirtschaftswoche. August 15, 2007 or Digitaler Exhibitionismus. Mehr Privates im Internet. n-tv.de August 15, 2007 or Digitaler Exhibitionismus - Privates im Internet wächst. Main-Post. August 15, 2007

Kerkmann, Christof. Rund um die Uhr überwacht. Datenspuren. n-tv Nachrichtenfernsehen GmbH. Deutsche Presse Agentur. August 6, 2007; Christof Kerkmann. Kontrolle rund um die Uhr - auch ohne Vorratsdatenspeicherung. Leipziger Volkszeitung. August 7, 2007; or Christof Kerkmann. Kontrolle rund um die Uhr: auch ohne Vorratsdatenspeicherung. Aachener Zeitung. August 6, 2007; or Kerkmann, Christof. Ein Tag im Leben des gläsernen Bürgers. Netzeitung. August 6, 2007.

Schohl, Susanne. Fachhochschule Kaiserslautern zeigt Software-Innovationen auf der CeBIT 2007. Rundschau. Fachhochschule Kaiserslautern. July 2007, p. 21.

Kerkmann, Christof. Suchmaschinen und der Datenschutz: Fahren die Kraken ihre Arme ein? Heise News. July 27, 2007. Christof Kerkmann. Suchmaschinen und der Datenschutz: Fahren die Kraken ihre Arme ein? PC Welt. July 27, 2007 or Christof Kerkmann. Das Ende der Sammelwut. Manager Magazin. July 27, 2007

Rohn, Julian und Charlotte Speth. Reger Zulauf für Facebook, MySpace und Co. Warum die Wirtschaft die Netzwerke liebt. Tagesschau. July 27, 2007

Jens, Tilman. Scientology, "YouTube" und die BBC. 3sat. May 25, 2007.

Zschunke, Peter. Welchen Jaguar hätten Sie denn gern? Spiegel Online. April 22, 2007; Zschunke, Peter. Suchmaschinenforschung wird zur wissenschaftlichen Disziplin. derStandard.at. April 17, 2007. or The Associated Press. Die Macht der Suchmaschinen. Kurier. April 17, 2007. or Zschunke, Peter. Unentbehrliche Helfer oder Verzerrer der Wirklichkeit? Suchmaschinenforschung als wissenschaftliche Disziplin. ZDF Heute. April 17, 2007

Pfälzischer Merkur. "Zweibrücken präsentiert sich auf der Cebit." Pfälzischer Merkur. March 21, 2007. No. 68, p. 23.

Ungerer, Bert. Mailfilter: Kommunikation im Griff. Gut gesiebt. iX CeBIT 2007. pp. 30

Zollondz, Alexander. Die Macht der Suchmaschinen. Financial Times Deutschland. February 24, 2007.

Schiessl, Michaela. Google Über Alles. The Ad Machine. Google Effectively Owns the Market for Internet Advertising. Spiegel. January 30, 2007.

Schiessl, Michaela. Die Anzeigen-Maschine. Der Werbemarkt im weltweiten Netz ist fest in der Hand von Google. Spiegel. No. 05/2007, January 29, 2007.

Mauruschat, Ania. Suchmaschine Wissen Macht. Feldforschungen zur digitalen Kunst & Gesellschaft. Bayern2Radio. Bayerischer Rundfunk. Hörspiel & Medienkunst. January 26, 2007.

Winkler, Mathis. Germany Pulls Away From Quaero Search-Engine Project. Deutsche Welle. Technology. December 21, 2006.

Giesecke, Gerald. Alles Wissen der Welt auf einen Klick? ZDF Aspekte. Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen. November 24, 2006.

Sawall, Achim. Vermarkten von Suchworten zeigt Wachstum von 80 Prozent. Google: "Die Nutzer sind gereift". de.internet.com. October 21, 2006.

c't. Suchmaschinenkongress: Googles Vorsprung aufholen. c't Magazin für Computer Technik. No. 22/2006, page 59.

Palsule-Desai, Priya. Der Siegeszug der bewegten Bilder. Deutsche Welle. October 21, 2006.

Westphal, Uwe. Googles Röhrengeschäft - schöne neue Medienwelt. Hessischer Rundfunk. Der Tag. hr2. October 18, 2006.

Buschek, Oliver. Google kauft YouTube II. Wohin steuert Google? - Interview mit dem Informatiker Prof. Hendrik Speck. Bayerischer Rundfunk. B5 aktuell. Das Computermagazin. October 15, 2006.

Raaf, Udo. YouTube und MySpace: Durchbruch mit illegalen Inhalten. Und Deutschland muss zuschauen. Tonspion. October 12, 2006.

Intemann, Bernd-Rainer. Die mächtige Riesenkrake im Internet. Die Suchmaschine wird zur zentralen Verteilerstelle im Informationszeitalter. Heilbronner Stimme. Onlineportal Stimme. October 11, 2006.

Speck, Hendrik. Google kauft YouTube. Erst ´kriminell´, dann ´legitim´. Tagesschau. October 10, 2006.

ZDF. Big Google – das Geheimnis der Suchmaschine. ZDF Nachtstudio. Talkshow. Invited Guests: Stefan Keuchel, Sybille Krämer, Kathrin Passig, Wolfgang Sander-Beuermann, and Hendrik Speck. September 17, 2006.

Höfer, Anja. Die virtuelle Weltbibiliothek - Wie Google Books unser Verhältnis zu Büchern verändert- Gespräch mit Prof. Hendrik Speck. SWR2. Journal am Mittag. September 5, 2006

Sonnabend, Lisa. Das Netz der Spinne: Google auf Expansionskurs. Netzthemen. September 1, 2006.

Neuhetzki, Thorsten Suchmaschinen: Mit Spezialschnüfflern im Internet suchen.Teltarif. August 24, 2006.

Schulte, Martina. Von der Suchmaschine zum Datenmonopolist. Das Medienunternehmen Google. Deutschlandfunk. Markt und Medien. August 12, 2006.

Borchers, Detlef. "Vor 10 Jahren: Wer sucht ... ." iX. no. 7/2006, p. 165

COLT Concret. Das Web-Portemonnaie ist da. COLT Concret. Colt Telekom GmbH. No. 02/2006.

Speck, Hendrik. Google startet 'Google Checkout'. 'Eigentlich ist das Notwehr'. Tagesschau. June 29, 2006.

Asocijacija mladih novinara Crne Gore. Zabrinutost zbog rastuće moći Google-a, Yahoo-a i MSN-a. Asocijacija mladih novinara Crne Gore. June 29, 2006.

Miliša, Linda. Berlin – medijski eksperti o rastućoj moći Google-a, Yahoo-a i Microsoftovog MSN-a. Voice of America. June 28, 2006.

Wenzel, Tobias. Türwächter der Information. Experten erörtern Macht und Sicherheit von Suchmaschinen. Deutschlandfunk. Forschung Aktuell. June 27, 2006.

Salden Julia. Die Macht einer Suchmaschine. NDR. Zapp. June 7, 2006. Documentary. 27 min 31 sec./ Script.

Elflein, Nicole. Wir wissen wenig über Google und Google weiß viel über uns. Publizistik in Berlin. May 26, 2006.

Borchers, Detlef. Netzwerk Recherche e.V. berät über 'Man in the Middle'. Heise. May 21, 2006.

Abramsohn, Jennifer. Europe's Quaero Project Aims to Challenge Google. Deutsche Welle. Business. March 9, 2006.

Monika Ermert. Siemens buys holding in European search engine Quaero. Heise News. February 3, 2006.

Monika Ermert. Siemens beteiligt sich an europäischer Suchmaschine Quaero. Heise News. February 2, 2006.

Patzwaldt, Klaus. Suchen und Finden im Internet - Tagung Münchner Kreis. at-web Suchmaschinen Weblog. February 2, 2006

Gongolsky, Mario. 22C3: Nutze Bandbreite. Netzkritik. January 2, 2006.

Voß, Oliver. Google macht das Hacken leichter. N24. 30. December 30, 2005.

Saar Echo. Wie Google und Yahoo Zensur ausüben. Saar Echo. August 1, 2005

Rohwedder, Wulf. Das Problem mit den Suchmaschinen. Auch im Internet - Nichts ist umsonst. Tagesschau. December 28, 2004.

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Videos

THESEUS Talente: Ideen für das Internet der Zukunft. (Google Video or DFKI )
Cebit. Future Talk.
Reinhard Karger | Steamtalks.
March 9, 2008.
36:08 min.
Language: German.

Datenstrip im Netz - Der Missbrauch persönlicher Profile. (Youtube or NDR )
NDR. Zapp Spezial.
Anne Ruprecht and Christopher Braun.
February 13, 2008.
09:04 min.
Language: German.

Wer hat das Monopol bei Suchmaschinen? (Youtube or Deutsche Welle)
Deutsche Welle.
Oliver Glasenapp.
February 5, 2008.
02:39 min.
Language: German.

Independence Declaration of Cyberspace. (Youtube)
European Graduate School.
John Perry Barlow.
2006.
72:00 min.
Language: English.

Google. Die Macht einer Suchmaschine. (Google Video)
NDR. Zapp Spezial.
Julia Salden.
June 7, 2006.
27:41 min.
Language: German.

Google. Die Macht einer Suchmaschine. (Youtube) Part 1 / 2 / 3
NDR. Zapp Spezial.
Julia Salden.
June 7, 2006.
28:41 min.
Language: German.

Search Engines - Oracles of the Information Society. (Google Video)
22nd Chaos Communication Congress.
Chaos Computer Club.
December 28, 2005.
56:34 min.
Language: English.

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Projects

Social Network Analysis

HelloWorld, a distributed social network without formulated centers of gravity or walled gardens of the proprietary variety, is based on distributed identity management, strong encryption, open standards, micro formats, and ease of use. HelloWorld allows users to protect identities, relationships, interests and networks.
Students: Markus Ackermann, Krister Hymon, Benjamin Ludwig, and Kai Wilhelm. Summer 2008.

Crimeblibs provides up-to-date crime maps and statistics for neighborhoods throughout Berlin (Germany). The application uses Bayesian algorithms to extract, filter and categorize relevant data; maps, visualizes, and analyzes crime incident patterns; and allows users to identify crime hot spots, trends and general patterns. The occurrences, events and data are extracted from public press releases of the City of Berlin Police Department. The interpretation of mapped and visualized results as well as further conclusions should be discussed with the local police department.
Students: Stefan Kovachev and Patrick Reichert. Summer 2008.

Tracing the Past: The Synagogues, explores the history and complexity of Jewish culture in Germany, focusing on the destruction of synagogues during the Kristallnacht of November 9-10 1938. The project provides an interactive map, visualizing the scale and dimension of damage and destruction, Jewish life present and past, combining GoogleMaps, charts, photographies, audio/visual material, eye witness reports, user generated data, newspaper references, wikipedia entries, and link collections.
Students: Sabine Bach, Bernd Eppler, Isabelle Schlitzer, David Schneider, and Michael Stoll. Summer 2008.

StudiMaps, based on Google Maps, is a classic MashUp for the analysis and visualization of social relationships within a social network enjoying popularity amongst German students. The open source framework offers data, charts, and visualisations of geographical connections and provides interfaces to mapping services, driving directions and train schedules.
Students: Boris Hasselmann and Thomas Overbeck. Winter 2007.

Gervis, an analysis and visualisation framework focusing on the intersection between politics and German industries, is based on Infrat$tat and Nepotist Analyzer. The application visualizes the relationships between companies listed at the stock exchange, board members, politicians, interests, and affiliations. The open source framework includes charts, statistics, salary information, revenue and employment tendencies as well as campaign contributions and individual donations reported to the Deutsche Bundestag.
Students: Christina Dombrowski, Stefan Schreiber and Daniela Natale. Winter 2007.

Infra$tat visualizes the relationships between companies, board of directors and supervisory boards of registered companies in Germany, providing a detailed picture of the interrelationships of the Deutschland AG. The framework relies on data provided by commercial content providers and visualizes the data with the visualization toolkit Prefuse. The framework is currently expanded to include political affiliations and campaign contributions.
Students: Michael Kabdebo, Marc Rohe, and Florian Bielsky. Summer 2007.

Facelift is a framework for the visualization and analysis of online social networking services. The framework displays communities as node-link diagrams and provides several search, filtering, clustering and analysis features. The current release provides an implementation for the online community Hi5.com, allowing members to download, analyze and visualize member, friend, user, and relationship information.
Students: Patrick Opitz and Sabrina Hunsicker. Summer 2007.

Last.forward analyzes and visualizes Last.fm, a web service and social network based on music, artists and user preferences. The free software framework Last.forward analyzes the relationships between individual users, friends, groups, and tastes and visualizes the results with the visualization toolkit Prefuse.
Students: Thomas Knoll, Christian Endlich, and Heike Scherer. Summer 2007.

StudiAnalyse, a free software project that analyzes and visualizes a German social network similar to Facebook, that was launched in October 2005 and still enjoys popularity amongst students in Germany
Students: Christoph Gerstle and Florian Moritz. Winter 2006/2007.

Nepotist Analyzer visualizes the relationships between commercial and political interests in Germany, providing a detailed picture of the Deutschland AG. The framework relies on data provided by commercial content providers and visualizes the data within a modular XML/SVG based visualization module.
Students: Charlene Beavers and Rainer Pfister. Winter 2006/2007.

SpamCan is a web based framework, allowing users to attract, analyze and locate spam, harvester, and spammer. Spam Emails are categorized into several categories using Bayesian filter.
Students: Katharina Gerhardt, Ralf Wagner, and Yvonne Schmittler. Winter 2006/2007.

Visual Ciao visualizes the social network of Ciao.de, a consumer centric community, providing a detailed analysis of age and gender distribution, experience, credits and community participation. The visualizations of Visual Ciao, an open source application written in Java, can be customized to explore specific sub communities, themes or individual members.
Students: Heidi Boeckh and Rainer Storck. Winter 2006/2007.

PeerLo is a plugin for the bittorrent-client "Azureus". With this plugin it is possible to visualize the swarm of users trying to download a particular torrent file. The plug-in identifies the location of each swarm member and visualizes the entire network on a map. Peerlo also provides some statistics about the origin and the downloading/uploading behavior of individual clients or networks.
Students: Andreas Augustin and Christian Becker. Winter 2006/2007.

Vinex (virtual network explorer) reduces the complexity of social networks by visualizing their structures. Based on data collected by web crawlers, Vinex offers the possibility to explore relationships between social networks, groups, and individual community members as well as interests, coordinates, profiles, addresses, email addresses, and themes.
Students: Pascal Jaubert and Frank Langhans. Summer 2006.

WebLoupe explores, analyses and visualizes link structures and websites. Filter criteria for charts, tree maps and visualisations include search depth, domain limitations, specific file sizes, ping/connection times, Mime types, keywords, and online/offline searches.
Students: Matthias Kahlau and Katja Langholz. Winter 2004/2005.

Wlandscape identifies, analyses and visualizes wireless network information, focusing on SSID, channel, signal strength, status, location, and coverage. Networks and network information are visualized on a topographical map.
Students: Benjamin Angel, Niko Bender, Jochen Bräuer, Christoph Müller, Steffen Schuler, Marcus Schug, Felix Noz, Thomas Müller, Steffen Schreiner and Christian Graß. Summer 2003.

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Classes

Media Management and Production.

     The course offers a broad, rigorous orientation for understanding the basic elements of media production, management and planning and intends to equip the student with the skills necessary to complete complex projects across various media. Students will also explore their personal strengths in various technologies, positions and tasks as well as their individual roles within the production process.
     In addition to discussion sessions, group projects and presentations, lectures will help students handle typical problems of media management and production and focus on topics as intellectual property, media technologies, communication, distribution, competition, team organization, project management and marketing.
     Group projects will demonstrate the proficiency level in project management, problem analysis and solving, programming, coding, visualizing, presenting and marketing. Proposals include methods and elements of information retrieval, databases, CVS (concurrent versions system), web services, technologies to be explored, methods and data to be visualized, and results presented and documented.

Media Design Foundations

This course will provide a solid introduction into media design and hyper media design, including color, color theory, typography, multi media, and corporate identity design. The class will teach how to create basic Web pages using Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), devise and develop basic multi media projects; understand and apply color theory, and use fonts, type and typography. The course will cover the basic HTML framework, font, type, and text formatting, images and graphics, as well as different color and perception models. Students will focus on design and aesthetic considerations but special attention will be devoted to readability, usability, coding syntax and implementation methods.

Online Marketing, Information Architecture and Search Engine Optimization

The class will help students to understand the principles of Online Marketing, Information Architectures and Search Engine Optimization. Participants of the class will be able to analyze, implement, and optimize viral marketing campaigns, and apply the lessons learned on web pages, portals, and ecommerce solutions. Students will understand the importance of search engines, directories, hits, pageviews, users, and linkpopularity respective PageRank®.

Media and Communications

This course introduces the student to the history, philosophy, epistemology and analysis of media and mass communication. The class covers social, cultural, and political changes triggered by new media and communication technologies and presents current theory and research models. Students will specifically focus on the implications of the phonetic alphabet, the invention of the printing press, television, and cyberspace and will participate in a mixture of lectures, readings, discussions, experiments and projects.

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