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The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture
Andrew Keen
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Description for The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture
Paperback. 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. BIC Classification: UDBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 258. How Blogs, MySpace, YouTube and the Rest of Today's User Generated Media are Killing Our Culture and Economy. 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. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: UDBS. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight: 260.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
257g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857885200
SKU
V9781857885200
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About Andrew Keen
Andrew Keen hosts the acclaimed podcast show, AfterTV, and his views have generated a firestorm of interest.
Reviews for The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture
Andrew Keen has had the temerity to point out that our search for instant wisdom through, say, Google and Wikipedia provides not necessarily what is most true or reliable—merely what is most popular. I read it in one sitting then went outside to fish for our supper, firmly believing that the poor fish that swallows my squirming worm on a ... Read more