SKOR, the Dutch Cultural Media Fund and De Balie invite you to a lecture and debate on the subject of Google and privacy inspired by issue 19 of 'Open': 'Beyond Privacy'. The American cultural historian and media theorist Siva Vaidhyanathan will give a lecture at De Balie in Amsterdam on October 19.
With contributions by Rop Gonggrijp and Geert Lovink.
Vaidhyanathan works as an Associate Professor Media Studies at the University of Virginia. In his blog The Googlization of Everything, which will appear as a book early 2011, he examines the impact of Google’s hegemony and poses critical questions. What does the world look like as seen through a Google lens? What is the impact of Google's omnipresence on the production and dissemination of knowledge? How does Google change other companies’, institutions’ and countries’ rules and practices? In his lecture, Vaidhyanathan will pay special attention to Google’s implications for the concept of privacy.
Coming up after the lecture:
- An interview with Vaidhyanathan by Geert Lovink, media theorist, lecturer at the Institute of Network Cultures and author of a.o. Zero Comments: Blogging and Critical Internet Culture.
- A reaction by Rop Gonggrijp, co-founder of internet provider XS4all and involved in whistleblower site Wikileaks.
