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The Cult of the Amateur : How blogs, MySpace, YouTube and the rest of today's user-generated media are killing our culture and economy

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Uproar against user-generated content

This book could be a good read for individuals interested in exploring the impact of user-generated content on our culture and economy. Keen's scathing critique of the wisdom of the crowd and the consequences of the endless digital forest of mediocrity highlights a warning for the public and professionals alike. Readers may gain a deeper understanding of the unfiltered presence of user-generated content and the power it potentially holds over public opinion.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Cult of the Amateur : How blogs, MySpace, YouTube and the rest of today's user-generated media are killing our culture and economy

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ISBN: 9781857885200
Estimated First-hand Retail Price: ₱1,435.05
Publisher: John Murray Press
Date of Publication: 2008-10-09
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Sociology, Politics, Personal Development
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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.


Author: Andrew Keen
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 272
Publisher: John Murray Press
Publication Date: 09 Oct 2008
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Uproar against user-generated content

This book could be a good read for individuals interested in exploring the impact of user-generated content on our culture and economy. Keen's scathing critique of the wisdom of the crowd and the consequences of the endless digital forest of mediocrity highlights a warning for the public and professionals alike. Readers may gain a deeper understanding of the unfiltered presence of user-generated content and the power it potentially holds over public opinion.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.