Siva Vaidhyanathan will be the Institute for the Future of the Book’s first fellow.
Mr. Vaidhyanathan, a media-studies scholar who recently moved from New York University to the University of Virginia, is best known for his work on copyright and digital media. He told The Chronicle recently that he was working on a book about Google.
Certainly his thoughts about Google will be a part of his fellowship at If: Book, but the rest of what he will do there is still up in the air, according to an announcement. “Precisely what ‘fellowship’ entails will develop over time but for now it means that the Institute is the new digital home of Sivacracy, Siva’s popular weblog,” If: Book says. —Scott Carlson
