Siva Vaidhynathan Lecture on “The Googlization of Everything”

by admin | September 3, 2009 | ISP speaker series | Comments Off

You are cordially invited to the inaugural Information Society Project speaker series of the new year, scheduled for Tuesday, September 8 at 1:15 p.m. in the Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall and co-sponsored by the Yale University Library. The lecture hall is immediately across Wall Street from the law school. Siva Vaidhynathan, media scholar and associate professor of media studies and law at the University of Virginia will be discussing his upcoming book “The Googlization of Everything.” Professor Vaidhyanathan’s new book seeks to answer three key questions: What does the world look like through the lens of Google?; How is Google’s ubiquity affecting the production and dissemination of knowledge?; and how has the corporation altered the rules and practices that govern other companies, institutions, and states? He is a frequent contributor on media and cultural issues in various periodicals including New York Times Magazine, The Nation, and Salon.com. He has been a frequent contributor to NPR, MSNBC.com and has appeared in a segment of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

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