Siva Vaidhyanathan

Siva Vaidhyanathan
Vaidhyanathan speaking at the 2011 Personal Democracy Forum
Born	1966 (age 57–58) Buffalo, New York, U.S.
Nationality	American
Education	University of Texas at Austin (BA, PhD)
Occupations	Cultural historian media scholar

Siva Vaidhyanathan (born 1966) is an American

Vaidhyanathan is of Indian descent^[3] and was born in Buffalo, New York, and attended the University of Texas at Austin, earning a BA in History in 1994 and a Ph.D. in 1999 in American Studies.^[4] From 1999 through the summer of 2007 he worked in the Department of Culture and Communication at New York University, the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Columbia University. From 1988 through 1993 he was a professional journalist working for several Texas daily newspapers.^{[citation needed]}

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Vaidhyanathan is a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities^[9] and the Institute for the Future of the Book.^[10] Vaidhyanathan serves on the board of the Digital Public Library of America.^[11]

Selected books

• Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity, NYU Press, 2001. (
  ISBN 978-0814788073
  )
• The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System, Basic Books, 2004. (
  ISBN 978-0465089857
  )
• Rewiring the Nation: The Place of Technology in American Studies, co-edited with Carolyn de la Peña, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. (
  ISBN 978-0801886515
  )
• The Googlization of Everything -- and Why We Should Worry, University of California Press, 2011. (
  ISBN 978-0520258822
  ). The text was in open development on a blog, launched September 27, 2007 in collaboration with the Institute for the Future of the Book.
• Intellectual Property: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2017. (
  ISBN 9780195372779
  )
• Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us And Undermines Democracy, Oxford University Press, 2018. (
  ISBN 978-0190841164
  )

• Anti-copyright
• Good Copy Bad Copy
• Mashup (music)
• Steal This Film
• Googlization

References

• Camp, L. Jean. DRM: doesn't really mean digital copyright management
• Eschenfelder, Kristin R. (2007) Every Library's Nightmare? Digital Rights Management and Licensed Scholarly Digital Resources
• Ross, Andrew. "Technology and Below-the-Line Labor in the Copyfight over Intellectual Property". American Quarterly, Volume 58, Number 3, September 2006, pp. 743–766
• Vaidhyanathan, Siva. "Critical Information Studies: A Bibliographic Manifesto". Cultural Studies 20(2/3) (March/May 2006): 292–315. ISSN 0950-2386 Download the .pdf

External links

• Video of Vaidhyanathan discussing social media in 2005 on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
• Videos of conversations and discussions involving Vaidhyanathan on Bloggingheads.tv
• Video: Siva Vaidhyanathan discusses The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry) on Forum Network.
• Appearances on C-SPAN