Google's Gadfly

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

An interview with Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, on the publication of his new book, _The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry)_ (University of California Press). Excerpt: "Vaidhyanathan’s point is not that Google has scammed us. He attributes the ascension of Google to a “public failure” — negligence by public stewards to preempt the privatization of knowledge and learning in the switch from analog to digital. In other words, we should have seen this coming. Did Google’s academic bloodlines lull higher education into passively supporting Page and Brin as they quietly absconded with the family jewels? Perhaps, but Vaidhyanathan is less concerned with how we got here than where we are and where we’re going. Accordingly, he proposes a sprawling effort by libraries and like-minded institutions that would essentially give Googlers a public option. “The future of knowledge — and thus the future of the species — depends on our getting this right,” he writes...."

Link:

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/02/16/new_book_explains_how_google_has_taken_over_knowledge_and_learning

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ru.no oa.new oa.google oa.search oa.interviews oa.people

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 14:35

Date published:

02/17/2011, 12:46