I have been home since December. It's been great. I have been known to rack up 75k miles flying per year and give talks two or three times per month. But I decided to decline invitations for the first few...
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Search Engines
Vaidhyanathan, Siva
January 2010
MTWRF, 0930-1200 WB119 Course Description: This course will consider the ways that the rise of search engines has affected how we view the world, conduct commerce, and communicate. The reading will combine political economy...
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Introduction to Digital Media Studies
TuTh 2:00PM to 3:15PM Minor Hall 125 Professor Siva Vaidhyanathan
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This class is an introduction to digital media studies. It explores
the ways digital media have had an impact on various aspects of
contemporary...
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I want to reveal the following relationships that might affect my readers' judgments about my opinions expressed the blog and in the book, The Googlization of Everything. 1) I have been paid by a major Google competitor, Microsoft, for articles...
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LATimes.com: BOOK REVIEW 'Planet Google' by Randall Stross, 'What Would Google Do?' by Jeff Jarvis A deftly paced analytical effort from Stross; a look at the tenets of Google's Web strategy by Jarvis. By Matthew Shaer January 26, 2009 Asked...
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Savage Minds: ... So what have I learned so far? A few things: 1) The Internet is dead. Well maybe it's not that bad, but the era when simply putting something online guaranteed orders of magnitude more readers/viewers/listeners than normal...
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You may have noticed that I have posted nothing here for about three weeks. You also may have noticed that this is the third blackout this site has had since July. I apologize for the silence. In the past three...
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Here is the chapter outline I am working with now. Long ago I abandoned the outline with which I proposed this book. Please give me comments. Have I omitted an important subject? ============================ I. Introduction: “Like the Mind of God”...
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Hi. I am back at this blog after a three-week hiatus. At first, I took a break from blogging because the folks who run this server informed me that it had been corrupted and they had to move everything. They...
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Leslie Johnston has pointed me to Sara Lloyd's "Book Publisher's Manifesto for the 21st Century." It's an interesting read. Check it out. We will need to think much less about products and much more about content; we will need to...
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Ok. So one mark of Google's cultural power is the proliferation of the verb "to Google." But now John McCain is using Google as a noun again. Republican presidential candidate John McCain joked on Monday that Google, the popular Internet...
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Submit Your Picks for Tech Policy Leaders: Nominations Open for the 2008 IP3 Awards! | Public Knowledge: We’re now accepting nominations for our annual IP3 Awards. Each year, Public Knowledge singles out three people who have advanced the public interest...
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As regular readers know, I left New York University last summer for the University of Virginia. I left NYU for many reasons, and I bear deep resentment against many of its policies and leaders. However, one part of NYU that...
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From Jeff Jarvis' BuzzMachine: WWGD? - The book I'm delighted to tell you that I just got a contract to write a book: WWGD? - What Would Google Do? I'm reverse-engineering Google, taking the lessons and rules I find in...
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From Publisher's Lunch: Siva Vaidhyanathan's THE GOOGLIZATION OF EVERYTHING: How one company is transforming culture, commerce and community - and why we should worry, showing how Google is taking on governments, organizations and entire industries - and the implications of...
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Hey folks. Both Sivacracy and The Googlization of Everything will be down until Monday because the Institute for the Future of the Book is migrating everything to a new server. Have a nice weekend!...
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Hi. Thanks for being patient with my silence the last couple of weeks. I stopped typing to let my hands and shoulders heal. Oh, and I went skiing. That was nice. So I am back and in the writing groove....
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A lot of folks around the Web have been wondering when I will weigh in on the new Google project, Knol. Unfortunately, my computer at the university of Virginia has been unwilling to even view either this blog or Sivacracy.net...
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In the comments below, Nick Krumholz expresses concerns that I have been too harsh about Google and have been writing as if there is a conspiracy afoot: I read this blog quite often (I have subscribed to it) and it...
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Google: What Goes on Behind the Curtain? Google: What Goes on Behind the Curtain? October 15, 2007 By Wendy Melillo WASHINGTON Siva Vaidhyanathan, cultural historian and associate professor of media studies and the law at the University of Virginia, thinks...
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From Concurring Opinions: Siva's New Blog/Book: The Googlization of Everything posted by Frank Pasquale The Institute for the Future of the Book has been doing fascinating research on publishing the past few years. In a nice convergence of substance and...
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Darn. I wish I had a real book to sell! From Ross Douthat : This will be an amazing book. One of the great attractions of Google is that it appears to offer so many powerful services for “free,” that...
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DailyProgress.com UVa professor takes on 'Googlization' By Brian McNeill bmcneill@dailyprogress.com | 978-7266 Sunday, September 30, 2007 Type “Siva Vaidhyanathan” into Google and the powerful search engine will turn up hits about the University of Virginia professor’s research into technology and...
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In less than 10 years since the search engine first appeared and spread through word of mouth, Google.com has radically altered the rules of the game for at least six major industries: Advertising, software applications, geographic services, e-mail, publishing, and...
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Hi. Welcome to my new book. Well, it’s not a book yet. In fact, it will not be a real book for a long time. As you can tell from the title of this blog, the book will be about...
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