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Siva Vaidhyanathan on The Googlization of Everything

March 3rd, 2011

The Internet is not as wild and ungoverned as we might have naively assumed back at its conception. But overall, no single state, firm, or institution in the world has as much power over Web-based activity as Google does. Is Google’s dominance the best situation for the future of our information ecosystem?

Siva Vaidhyanathan — professor of media studies at the University of Virginia — discusses key points from his most recent book “The Googlization of Everything (and Why We Should Be Worried).”

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