The Googlization of everything : (and why we should worry) /
Siva Vaidhyanathan.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.
- xiv, 265 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-255) and index.
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 the library: the future of books -- The Googlization of memory: filters and the fracturing of knowledge -- Conclusion: the human knowledge project.
9780520258822 (cloth : alk. paper)
2010027772
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