The Cult of the Amateur
How blogs, MySpace, YouTube and the rest of today's user-generated media are killing our culture and economy
(Sprache: Englisch)
Keen argues that much of the content filling up YouTube, Twitter and blogs is just an endless digital forest of mediocrity which, unconstrained by professional standards or editorial filters, can alter public debate and manipulate public opinion.
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Keen argues that much of the content filling up YouTube, Twitter and blogs is just an endless digital forest of mediocrity which, unconstrained by professional standards or editorial filters, can alter public debate and manipulate public opinion.
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A new, updated edition, with a new foreword of Andrew Keen's witty and provocative polemic against the rise of user-generated content and the anything goes standards of much online publishing, which set the blogosphere and media alight on publication.
Dubbed the 'anti-christ' of Silicon Valley and a dot-com apostate, Andrew Keen is the leading contemporary critic of the Internet. and The Cult of the Amateur is a scathing attack on the mad utopians of Web 2.0 and the wisdom of the crowd. Keen argues that much of the content filling up YouTube, MySpace, and blogs is just an endless digital forest of mediocrity which, unconstrained by professional standards or editorial filters, can alter public debate and manipulate public opinion.
Autoren-Porträt von Andrew Keen
Andrew Keen hosts the acclaimed podcast show, AfterTV, and his views have generated a firestorm of interest.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Andrew Keen
- 2008, 2. Aufl., 272 Seiten, Maße: 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
- ISBN-10: 1857885201
- ISBN-13: 9781857885200
Sprache:
Englisch
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