The Cult of the Amateur Forum..
You can barely sit in a business meeting or log on these days without having some reference to Web 2.0 and user generated content come up.
Many of you reading this may be champions-or pioneers-of this latest digital incarnation. However, in the interests of being, for lack of a better phrase, "fair and balanced" I wanted to present a contrarian view that shows that there is a dark side to every silicon lining. In my opinion, today's self-broadcasting world where amateurism is king threatens the very viability of so many of our cultural institutions.
You may not agree with the arguments I put forth in Cult of the Amateur but in the interest of starting an open debate I would urge you to read it and let me know what you think.
Best regards,
Andrew
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The Cult of the Amateur: How Today´s Internet is Killing our Culture” (“O culto do amador: como a internet nos dias de hoje está a matar a nossa cultura”) IS GREAT. THANKS for a TRUE.
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Overall, while The Cult of the Amateur is easy to read and focuses attention on some important issues, this is a Luddite book, which appears erudite because Keen is clearly reasonably well-read. Unfortunately, the impact will not be for the good. People like AN Wilson leap on to this as proof of the ...
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My response to Andrew Keen, and his new book which trashes American Culture from a wholly British, Elitist perspective, and has the balls to suggest that WE might Share any aspect of Culture, a culture our people FLED FROM a few centuries ago, is not a positive one.
This is not, in the way of the ...
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I reached the same conclusions. Superficially, from word of mouth about the book and from my own experience. I'll have to order the book as it is nowhere near here to buy. It should be very interesting.
I think user-generated content on the internet is here to stay and it's fragmentation of our culture ...
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Andrew's debate is timely. It seems to me to be an acknowledgment that an understanding of history compels us to embrace change, because much of it is inevitable, but that certain things, for example, basic human needs, change very little over time.
The internet is founded upon notions of freedom, ...
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