How to make Web 2.0 a little less exploitative (The Googlization of Everything)

I have a paper forthcoming on how some regulatory moves now could help assure that the “leveling effect” of companies like Google persistently helps society generally–rather than just transferring wealth from creators to new intermediaries. (I’ll get it on SSRN soon, I promise!) For now, let me recommend blogs like C.E. Petit’s, which has a good handle on the real economics of creative industries. I also think works like Soren Mork Peterson’s and Trebor Scholz’s ask interesting questions about the blurring of work and play online, though I don’t necessarily come to all of their conclusions.

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Posted by Siva Vaidhyanathan, March 14, 2008 10:31 AM

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Siva Vaidhyanathan

This blog, the result of a collaboration between myself and the Institute for the Future of the Book, is dedicated to exploring the process of writing a critical interpretation of the actions and intentions behind the cultural behemoth that is Google, Inc. The book will 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? [more]

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