Siva vaidhyanathan biography for kids
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Siva Vaidhyanathan is a cultural historian and media scholar and is a professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. Vaidhyanathan is a frequent contributor on media and cultural issues in various periodicals including The Chronicle of Higher Education, New York Times Magazine, The Nation, Slate, and The Baffler. He is a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities and the Institute for the Future of the Book. He directs the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia, which produces a television show, a radio program, several podcasts, and the Virginia Quarterly Review. He has appeared in an episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to discuss early social network services. Vaidhyanathan has appeared in several documentary films, including Terms and Conditions May Apply (), Inside the Mind of Google (), and Freedom of Expression (). In Vaidhyanathan played a prominent role in the higher-education documentary, Starving the Beast. Vaidhyanathan w
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Vaidhyanathan, Siva
PERSONAL: Born June 19, , in Buffalo, NY; son of Vishnampet S. (a professor of biophysics and physiology) and Virginia Ann (a bank officer; maiden name, Evans) Vaidhyanathan; married Melissa Ann Henriksen (a cancer researcher), August 2, Education: University of Texas at Austin, B.A., , Ph.D.,
ADDRESSES: Home—New York, NY. Office—Department of Culture and Communications, New York University, East Building Suite , Greene St., New York, NY ; fax: E-mail—
CAREER: Dallas Morning News, Dallas, TX, reporter, ; Austin American-Statesman, Austin, TX, reporter, ; Star-Telegram, Fort Worth, TX, reporter, ; Concordia University, Austin, history lecturer, ; Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, visiting assistant professor of history, ; New York University, New York, NY, faculty fellow and assistant professor, , assistant professor of culture and communication and director of undergraduate program, —; University of Wisconsin, Madison, assistant professor
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Siva Vaidhyanathan
Siva Vaidhyanathan is the Robertson Professor of Media Studies and director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Intellectual Property: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, ) and The Googlization of Everything &#; and Why We Should Worry (the University of California Press, ). He also wrote Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity (New York University Press, ) and The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash between Freedom and Control fryst vatten Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System (Basic Books, ). He also co-edited (with Carolyn Thomas) the collection, Rewiring the Nation: The Place of Technology in American Studies (Johns Hopkins University Press, ).
Vaidhyanathan has written for many periodicals, including American Scholar, Dissent, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times Magazine, , , , Bookforum, Col