Siva Vaidhyanathan

A cultural historian and media scholar, Siva Vaidhyanathan is currently the Robertson Professor and Chair of the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. He also teaches at the University of Virginia School of Law. The author of “The Googlization of Everything and Why We Should Worry”. Vaidhyanathan is a frequent contributor to The American Scholar, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Slate, and The Nation. Named one of academia’s best-known scholars of intellectual property and its role in contemporary culture by the Chronicle of Higher Education, Vaidhyanathan has testified as an expert before the U.S. Copyright Office on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.