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Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of the new book The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry), will speak on campus Feb. 24 at 4:30 p.m. in Cushing 001. Vaidhyanathan is a cultural historian and media scholar at the University of Virginia. His other works include Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity and The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System. He has contributed to periodicals, including The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times Magazine, Salon.com, and The Nation, as well as to National Public Radio and “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.” Sponsor: American Studies Program.