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Jan 8, 2019 · Silicon Valley insider and pundit Andrew Keen claims that today's new participatory Web 2.0 threatens our values, economy, and ultimately the very innovation and creativity that forms the fabric of American achievement.
Oct 12, 2008 · THE CULT OF THE AMATEUR: HOW TODAY’S INTERNET IS KILLING OUR CULTURE (By: Andrew Keen). McGill Journal of Education / Revue Des Sciences De l’éducation De McGill, 43 (2). Retrieved from https://mje.mcgill.ca/article/view/3073. More Citation Formats. Issue. Vol. 43 No. 2 (2008) Section. Book Reviews. License.
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Jun 5, 2007 · In a hard-hitting and provocative polemic, Silicon Valley insider and pundit Andrew Keen exposes the grave consequences of today’s new participatory Web 2.0 and reveals how it threatens our values, economy, and ultimately the very innovation and creativity that forms the fabric of American achievement.
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Jan 1, 2007 · He argues that too much amateur, user-generated, free content is threatening not only mainstream media—newspapers, magazines, and record and movie companies—but our very culture. We asked Keen what today's Internet trends mean for the future of our increasingly Web-driven society.
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The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture is a 2007 book written by entrepreneur and Internet critic Andrew Keen. Published by Currency, Keen's first book is a critique of the enthusiasm surrounding user-generated content, peer production, and other Web 2.0–related phenomena.
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Jan 8, 2015 · With the number of bloggers topping 70 million and 65,000 videos being posted daily to YouTube.com, the so-called 'œWeb 2.0' revolution appears irreversible. But the explosion of user-generated ...
Andrew Keen joined the first internet gold rush. But he did not get rich. And he began to wonder if all the claims that were made for the digital Utopia he had been selling really added up. Are crowds really wiser than trained professionals? What do social networking sites do about paedophiles? Why trust bloggers more than journalists?
