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Siva Vaidhyanathan

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Buffalo, New York, The United States

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Nonfiction, Computers & Internet, Social Sciences

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Robertson Family Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia.

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin.

B.A., University of Texas at Austin.

Siva Vaidhyanathan is a cultural historian and media scholar, and is currently a professor of media studies at the University of Virginia. From 1999 through the summer of 2007 he worked in the Department of Culture and Communication at New York University. Vaidhyanathan is a frequent contributor on media and cultural issues in various periodicals including The Chronicle of Higher Education, New York Times Magazine, The Nation, and Salon.com, and he maintains a blog, www.googlizationofeverything.com. He is a frequent contributor to National Public Radio and to MSNBC.COM and has appeared in a segme...more

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Siva Vaidhyanathan's Blog

Siva Vaidhyanathan isn't a Goodreads Author (yet), but he does have a blog, so here are some recent posts imported from his feed.

Times Higher Education - The Googlization of Everything (and Why We Should Worry)

A great review in the Times (of London) Higher Education Supplement:

See, hear and seek no evil

There is danger in giving free rein to the world's most popular search engine, discovers Harold Thimbleby

The land of the dawn-lit mountains, Arunachal Pradesh, is a disputed territory lying between two super-powers with nuclear weapons, India and China. If you live in India, Google Maps shows you Aruna...

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Books by Siva Vaidhyanathan

Average rating: 3.48 · 288 ratings · 62 reviews · 4 distinct works

	The Googlization of Everything: 3.26 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System 3.59 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity 3.75 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Rewiring the "Nation": The Place of Technology in American Studies 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2007	My rating: