The Googlization of everything : (and why we should worry) / Siva Vaidhyanathan.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780520258822
- ISBN: 0520258827
- Physical Description: xiv, 265 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2011]
- Copyright: ©2011
Content descriptions
| With Note: | MARCIVE 10/14/11 |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 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. |
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| Subject: | Google (Firm) Internet industry > Social aspects. Internet > Social aspects. |
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