Siva Vaidhyanathan
Siva Vaidhyanathan (born June 16, 1966 in Buffalo , New York) is an American cultural historian and media scholar. He is Professor of Media Studies and Law at the University of Virginia .
Vaidhyanathan is a regular journalist. He has published in The Chronicle of Higher Education , New York Times Magazine , The Nation , MSNBC.com , and Salon.com . Between 2004 and 2008 he ran the blog Sivacracy.net, meanwhile he blogs at www.googlizationofeverything.com/.
Vaidhyanathan received his BA in 1995 and PhD from the University of Texas in 1999 . Between 1999 and 2007 he taught at New York University .
At the turn of the millennium , together with Lawrence Lessig, Vaidhyanathan was one of the first thinkers to introduce the question of copyright , personal freedom and cultural expression into the scientific public debate. In his remarks on cyber freedoms, he takes the political theory of anarchism as a starting point for developing his system of radical democracy. This builds on personal autonomy and a willingness to innovate, and needs a culture of sharing - of music, poetry, data and rumors - in order to develop.
In Copyrights and Copywrongs , Vaidhyanathan argues that the history of copyright law in the 20th century is one of continuous expansion that has lost sight of the original goals of copyright law.
In the Anarchist in the Library he diagnoses a conflict between oligarchy and anarchy that threatens the deliberative discourse in public space. In this context, file sharing is a current expression of cultural practices that ruling institutions have viewed as subversive for centuries.
Publications
- Copyrights and Copywrongs : The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity , NYU Press, 2001. ( ISBN 978-0-8147-8807-3 )
- 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 978-0-465-08985-7 )
- Rewiring the Nation: The Place of Technology in American Studies , co-edited with Carolyn de la Peña, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. ( ISBN 978-0-8018-8651-5 )
- The Googlization of Everything - and Why We Should Worry , University of California Press, 2011. ( ISBN 978-0-520-25882-2 ). The text was in open development on a blog , launched September 27, 2007 in collaboration with the Institute for the Future of the Book.
Web links
- Website at the University of Virginia
- Blog on the book "The Googlization of Everything" ( Memento from October 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Remarks
- ^ The Alcalde Vaidhyanathan , July 2001, p. 83
- ↑ Patrick Burkart: Music and cyberliberties Wesleyan University Press, 2010 ISBN 0-8195-6918-6 , p. 26
- ↑ Patrick Burkart: Music and cyberliberties Wesleyan University Press, 2010 ISBN 0-8195-6918-6 , p. 26
- ↑ Rosemary J. Coombe: Commodity Culture, Private Censorship, Branded Environments, and Global Trade Politics in: Austin Sarat (ed.): The Blackwell companion to law and society Wiley-Blackwell, 2004 ISBN 0-631-22896-9 pp.
- ↑ Elizabeth Mathews Losh: Virtualpolitik: an electronic history of government media-making in a time of war, scandal, disaster, miscommunication, and mistakes MIT Press, 2009 ISBN 0-262-12304-5 , p. 43
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Vaidhyanathan, Siva |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American media scholar, professor of law and media |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 16, 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buffalo, New York , New York State ( USA ) |