About the Program
Siva Vaidhyanathan, media studies and law professor at the University of Virginia, contends that Google's ever-growing prominence as the sole search engine for many Internet allows the company to decide what is of greatest interest and value on the Web and presents a singular view of what is available to the user. The author argues for changes in the ways that people sort and receive information on-line in the hopes of moving away from what he considers is the blind faith many grant to Google. Siva Vaidhyanathan presents his argument at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Massachusetts.