The Googlization of everything : (and why we should worry) / Siva Vaidhyanathan.
2011
338.76102504 V128g 2011
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Title
The Googlization of everything : (and why we should worry) / Siva Vaidhyanathan.
Author
ISBN
9780520258822 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520258827 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520948693 (e-book)
0520948696 (e-book)
0520258827 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520948693 (e-book)
0520948696 (e-book)
Imprint
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.
Language
English
Description
xiv, 265 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
338.76102504 V128g 2011
System Control No.
(OCoLC)646309306
(OCoLC)646309306
(OCoLC)646309306
Summary
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 book, the author 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 Book Search. He assesses Google's global impact, particularly in China, and explains the insidious effect of Googlization on the way we think. Finally, he proposes the construction of an Internet ecosystem designed to benefit the whole world and keep one brilliant and powerful company from falling into the "evil" it pledged to avoid.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-255) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction: the gospel of Google
"Render unto Caesar": how Google came to rule the web
Google's ways and means: faith in aptitude and technology
The Googlization of us: universal surveillance and infrastructural imperialism
The Googlization of the world: prospects for a global public sphere
The Googlization of knowledge: the future of books
The Googlization of memory: information overload, filters and the fracturing of knowledge
Conclusion: the human knowledge project.
"Render unto Caesar": how Google came to rule the web
Google's ways and means: faith in aptitude and technology
The Googlization of us: universal surveillance and infrastructural imperialism
The Googlization of the world: prospects for a global public sphere
The Googlization of knowledge: the future of books
The Googlization of memory: information overload, filters and the fracturing of knowledge
Conclusion: the human knowledge project.
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