Antisocial Media
09/11/2018 12:00 PM in Cambridge (United States of America)
How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy This event is sponsored by Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Speaker: 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 Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy (2018), Intellectual Property: A Very Short Introduction (2017), The Googlization of Everything — and Why We Should Worry (2011),
Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity (2001), and The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System (2004). He also co-edited (with Carolyn Thomas) the collection, Rewiring the Nation: The Place of Technology in American Studies (2007). Vaidhyanathan has written for many periodicals, including The New York Times, Bloomberg View, American Scholar, Dissent, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times Magazine, Slate.com, BookForum, Columbia Journalism Review, Washington Post, The Guardian, Esquire.com, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The New York Times Book Review, and The Nation.