The Googlization of everything
Subtitle: (and why we should worry)
By: Siva Vaidhyanathan
Edition: Updated ed.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780520272897
Subjects: Social aspects; Internet searching; Google (Firm); Search engines; Internet
Description: Unlike other books on the history of Google, this is a sharp attack on some of Googles initiatives and a broad rumination about its impact on all of our lives from a young blogger and tech expert.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-255) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the gospel of Google; title: "Render unto Caesar": how Google came to rule the web; title: Google's ways and means: faith in aptitude and technology; title: The Googlization of us: universal surveillance and infrastructural imperialism; title: The Googlization of the world: prospects for a global public sphere; title: The Googlization of the library: the future of books; title: The Googlization of memory: filters and the fracturing of knowledge; title: Conclusion: the human knowledge project.