Siva Vaidhyanathan
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Buffalo, New York, U.S.
|nationality=American
|education=
University of Texas at Austin (
BA,
PhD)
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Siva Vaidhyanathan (born 1966) is an American
cultural historian and
media scholar, and the Robertson professor of Media Studies at the
University of Virginia. 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''.
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