{"id":1011,"date":"2007-07-16T08:47:25","date_gmt":"2007-07-16T08:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2007-07-16T08:47:25","modified_gmt":"2007-07-16T08:47:25","slug":"welcome_siva_vaidhyanathan_our_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/16\/welcome_siva_vaidhyanathan_our_1\/","title":{"rendered":"welcome siva vaidhyanathan, our first fellow"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"vaidhyanathan.jpg\" We are proud to announce that the brilliant media scholar and critic Siva Vaidhyanathan<\/a> will be establishing a virtual residency here as the Institute’s first fellow. Siva is in the process of moving<\/a> from NYU to the University of Virginia, where he’ll be teaching media studies and law. While we’re sad to be losing him in New York, we’re thrilled that this new relationship will bring our work into closer, more dynamic proximity. Precisely what “fellowship” entails will develop over time but for now it means that the Institute is the new digital home of SIVACRACY.NET<\/a>, Siva’s popular weblog. It also means that next month we will be a launching a new website devoted to Siva’s latest book project, The Googlization of Everything<\/i>, an examination of Google’s disruptive effects on culture, commerce and community.
\nSiva is one of just a handful of writers to have leveled a consistent and coherent critique of Google’s expansionist policies, arguing not from the usual kneejerk copyright conservatism that has dominated the debate but from a broader cultural and historical perspective: what does it mean for one company to control so much of the world’s knowledge? Siva recently gave a keynote talk at the New Network Theory<\/a> conference in Amsterdam where he explored some of these ideas, which you can read about here<\/a>. Clearly Siva’s views on these issues are sympathetic to our own so we’re very glad to be involved in the development of this important book. Stay tuned for more details.
\nWelcome aboard, Siva.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are proud to announce that the brilliant media scholar and critic Siva Vaidhyanathan will be establishing a virtual residency here as the Institute’s first fellow. Siva is in the process of moving from NYU to the University of Virginia, where he’ll be teaching media studies and law. While we’re sad to be losing him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,395,755,1712,2042],"tags":[2905],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-copyright","category-google","category-siva_vaidhyanathan","category-writing","tag-siva_vaidhyanathan-google-copyright-books-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}