Siva Vaidhyanathan Explained

Siva Vaidhyanathan
Birth Place:Buffalo, New York, U.S.
Nationality:American
Education:University of Texas at Austin (BA, PhD)

Siva Vaidhyanathan (born 1966) is an American cultural historian and media scholar, and the Robertson professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia.[1] Vaidhyanathan is a permanent columnist at The Guardian and Slate; he is also a frequent contributor on media and cultural issues in various periodicals including The Chronicle of Higher Education, New York Times Magazine, The Nation, Slate, and The Baffler. He directs the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia, which produces a television show, a radio program, several podcasts, and the Virginia Quarterly Review.[2]

Biography

Vaidhyanathan is of Indian descent[3] and was born in Buffalo, New York, and attended the University of Texas at Austin, earning a BA in History in 1994 and a Ph.D. in 1999 in American Studies.[4] From 1999 through the summer of 2007 he worked in the Department of Culture and Communication at New York University, the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Columbia University. From 1988 through 1993 he was a professional journalist working for several Texas daily newspapers.

He has appeared in an episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to discuss early social network services.[5] Vaidhyanathan has appeared in several documentary films, including Terms and Conditions May Apply (2013), Inside the Mind of Google (2009), and Freedom of Expression (2007).[6] In 2016 Vaidhyanathan played a prominent role in the higher-education documentary, Starving the Beast.[7] Vaidhyanathan was portrayed as a character on stage at the Public Theater in New York City in a play called Privacy (2016).[8]

Vaidhyanathan is a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities[9] and the Institute for the Future of the Book.[10] Vaidhyanathan serves on the board of the Digital Public Library of America.[11]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Vaidhyanathan . Siva . Facebook has just suffered its most devastating PR catastrophe yet . 8 October 2021 . . October 8, 2021.
  2. Web site: Programs Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia. www.mediaandcitizenship.org. en. 2017-06-27.
  3. 1646579102118297601. sivavaid. Another day with anti-Indian vitriol thrown at me by allegedly "patriotic" Americans.. Siva. Vaidhyanathan. April 13, 2023.
  4. Texas Exes Alumni Directory, by The Texas Exes. Dallas, Texas: PCI The Data Company, 2006, page 1388.
  5. Web site: Trendspotting - Social Networking - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. https://web.archive.org/web/20151021065041/http://www.cc.com/video-clips/dxrlhk/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-trendspotting---social-networking. dead. October 21, 2015. Comedy Central. 16 February 2006 . 2017-06-27.
  6. Web site: Siva Vaidhyanathan. IMDb. 2017-06-27.
  7. News: Commodity U: Starving the Beast looks at the dismantling of public education. 2016-09-28. C-VILLE Weekly. 2017-06-27. en-US.
  8. News: Media Studies Professor Applauds His New York Stage Doppelgänger. 2017-06-27. en-US.
  9. Web site: NYIH Fellows. NYIHumanities.org. New York Institute for the Humanities. 23 March 2016.
  10. Web site: Schneider. K.G.. Siva to be Fellow at the Institute for the Future of the Book. Free Range Librarian. 16 July 2007 . 23 March 2016.
  11. Web site: Digital Public Library of America » Board. 2017-06-27.

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