The Cult of the Amateur: How Blogs, Myspace, Youtube and the Rest of Today'S User-Generated Media are Killing our Culture and Economy download free [PDF and Ebook] by Andrew Keen
Book name: The Cult of the Amateur: How Blogs, Myspace, Youtube and the Rest of Today'S User-Generated Media are Killing our Culture and Economy
Description or summary of the book: 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.
Estimated reading time (average reader): 15H2M8S
Other categories, genre or collection: Popular Culture, Impact Of Science & Technology On Society
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