Posts Tagged: Siva Vaidhyanathan

Siva Vaidhyanathan on the Intimate Relationship Between State Surveillance and Corporate Dataveillance

By katia, November 10, 2013

Short interview with Siva Vaidhyanathan from network cultures on Vimeo. Society of the Query #2 kicks off with a mind-boggling presentation by Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of The Googlization of Everything. With the steady revelations throughout the summer of 2013 about the United States government’s programs and powers to monitor digital communication, mine metadata, and circumvent [...]

Siva Vaidhyanathan on Googlization, “Only the elite and proficient get to opt out”

By Chris Castiglione, November 19, 2009

The term Googlization, according to Siva Vaidhyanathan, is the process of being processed, rendered, and represented by Google. Vaidhyanathan’s upcoming book The Googlization of Everything investigates the actions and intentions behind the Google corporation. This afternoon at The Society of the Query Vaidhyanathan choose one issue from his book: the politics and implications of Google [...]

Discussion session 2: Googlization

By tjerk timan, November 16, 2009

With: Siva Vaidhyanathan, Martin Feuz  and Esther Weltevrede Moderated by Andrew Keen. Moderator: Why does no one talk about money? Vaidhyanathan: Google only loses money. They have an interest to keeping people interacting with the Web. As long as you are interacting with the web, they can track you via cookies and that puts more [...]

Lev Manovich: Studying Culture With Search Algorithms

By Chris Castiglione, November 15, 2009

New media theorist Lev Manovich summarized his latest contribution to the field of software studies: cultural analytics. The idea of cultural analytics was first presented by Lev Manovich in 2005, and in 2007 he released a paper at CALIT2 entitled “Cultural Analytics: Analysis and Visualization of Large Cultural Data Sets.” In his talk today Manovich [...]