"Google's Gadfly": Interview in Inside Higher Ed (The Googlization of Everything)

Google's Gadfly
February 16, 2011

"Uncomfortably familial." That is how Siva Vaidhyanathan, a professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, describes the relationship between higher education and Google -- a company that has, in a little more than a decade, evolved from pet project of Stanford doctoral students to chief usher of the information age. ...

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