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Siva Vaidhyanathan

Siva Vaidhyanathan is the Robertson Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia and the author of The Googlization of Everything—and Why We Should Worry (2011). icon

Showdown at the University of Texas

By Siva Vaidhyanathan

In June 2014 there was a showdown in Texas. The University of Texas Board of Regents and its chancellor, who runs the system, had been trying to fire the president of the university system’s flagship ...

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