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The Googlization of Everything: (And Why We Should Worry)
Siva Vaidhyanathan
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Paperback. Examines the ways we have used and embraced Google - and the growing resistance to its expansion across the globe. This title exposes the dark side of our Google fantasies, raising red flags about issues of intellectual property and the much-touted Google Book Search. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 228 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384. (And Why We Should Worry). 280 pages. Examines the ways we have used and embraced Google - and the growing resistance to its expansion across the globe. This title exposes the dark side of our Google fantasies, raising red flags about issues of intellectual property and the much-touted Google Book Search. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD. Dimension: 154 x 228 x 17. Weight: 382.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
280
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
384g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520272897
SKU
V9780520272897
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About Siva Vaidhyanathan
Siva Vaidhyanathan is the Robertson Family Professor of Media Studies and Law and Chair of the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia, and 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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Googlization of Everything: (And Why We Should Worry)
"An important book. While a number of excellent histories about the emergence of Google have been published ... few writers have tried to take a comprehensive and critical look at the wider impact on society of Google's vast ambition 'to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.'... Vaidhyanathan's perspective as an East Coast academic outside the ... Read more