Googlization of Everything
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algorithms
Author_Siva Vaidhyanathan
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china
critical thinking
cyber
data
data mining
digital archive
digital culture
digital information
digital sociology
digital world
digitization
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google
google book search
information age
information technology
intellectual property
internet
internet safety
media
personal information
politics
popular culture
privacy
private marketing
science
science and ethics
social issues
social media
technology
technology and society
technology ethics
Product details
- ISBN 9780520258822
- Weight: 499g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 08 Mar 2011
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In the beginning, the World Wide Web was exciting and open to the point of anarchy, a vast and intimidating repository of unindexed confusion. Into this creative chaos came Google with its dazzling mission - "To organize the world's information and make it universally accessible" - and its much-quoted motto, "Don't be evil". In this provocative book, Siva Vaidhyanathan examines the ways we have used and embraced Google - and the growing resistance to its expansion across the globe. He exposes the dark side of our Google fantasies, raising red flags about issues of intellectual property and the much-touted Google Book Search. He assesses Google's global impact, particularly in China, and explains the insidious effect of Googlization on the way we think. Finally, Vaidhyanathan proposes the construction of an Internet ecosystem designed to benefit the whole world and keep one brilliant and powerful company from falling into the "evil" it pledged to avoid.
Siva Vaidhyanathan, Professor of Media Studies and Law at the University of Virginia, is the author of Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity and The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System.
