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Siva Vaidhyanathan

    June 16, 1966

    Siva Vaidhyanathan is a cultural historian and media scholar whose work probes the intricate relationship between media, intellectual property, and contemporary culture. He is a keen observer of the front lines of copyright battles, championing the role of information custodians in our cultural commons. Vaidhyanathan's incisive analyses offer a deep understanding of the ever-shifting media landscape and its profound societal implications, making him a leading voice in academic discourse.

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    Antisocial Media
    • Antisocial Media

      • 288 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
      3.9(457)Add rating

      If you wanted to build a machine that would distribute propaganda to millions of people, distract them from important issues, energize hatred and bigotry, erode social trust, undermine respectable journalism, foster doubts about science, and engage in massive surveillance all at once, you would make something a lot like Facebook. Of course, none of that was part of the plan. In this fully updated paperback edition of Antisocial Media, Siva Vaidhyanathan explains how Facebook devolved from an innocent social site hacked together by Harvard students into a force that, while it may make personal life just a little more pleasurable, makes democracy a lot more challenging. It's an account of the hubris of good intentions, a missionary spirit, and an ideology that sees computer code as the universal solvent for all human problems. And it's an indictment of how "social media" has fostered the deterioration of democratic culture around the world, from facilitating Russian meddling in support of Trump's election to the exploitation of the platform by murderous authoritarians in Burma and the Philippines. Both authoritative and trenchant, Antisocial Media shows how Facebook's mission went so wrong.

      Antisocial Media
    • The Googlization of Everything

      • 265 pages
      • 10 hours of reading
      3.3(17)Add rating

      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.

      The Googlization of Everything
    • In the course of a book tracing the legal paths by which ideas about intellectual property has traveled, Vaidhyanathan illuminates conflicting truths... In this smart, engaging book, surprisingly provocative for a short introduction, he won this reader. Karin Wulf, The Scholarly Kitchen

      Intellectual Property: A Very Short Introduction
    • Antisocial Media, książka poświęcona hegemonii Facebooka, ukazuje się w najlepszym możliwym momencie, wpisując się w debatę o roli medi�w społecznościowych w zachodnim modelu demokracji.Antisocial Media to atak na obecny model biznesowy Facebooka na wszystkich frontach. Autor opisuje manipulacje, jakim poddawany jest użytkownik po to, aby uzależnić go od Facebooka. Ten największy na świecie system inwigilacji�gromadzi dane o dw�ch miliardach użytkownik�w. Żaden inny nośnik reklam nie może się r�wnać z tym, co oferuje serwis Zuckerberga. Oferta gazet, magazyn�w i telewizji wypada przy tym bardzo blado. W systemie Zuckerberga produktem jesteśmy my ? i nasza uwaga.Vaidhyanathan odnosi się r�wnież do gorącego tematu spłycenia debaty publicznej w zachodnich demokracjach, antagonizacji i radykalizacji r�żnych grup społecznych, tworzenia zamkniętych baniek informacyjnych, wyboru Donalda Trumpa na prezydenta USA, wyjścia Wielkiej Brytanii z Unii Europejskiej i wpływu obcych państw (gł�wnie Rosji) na wiele z tych proces�w. Antisocial Media to bardzo aktualna znakomita pr�ba ujęcia zjawiska wsp�łczesnego w solidnych ramach koncepcyjnych.

      Antisocial media Jak Facebook oddala nas od siebie i zagraża demokracji