The cult of the amateur : how blogs, MySpace, YouTube, and the rest of today’s user-generated media are destroying our economy, our culture, and our values

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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. 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. … celý popis

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Hlavní autor

Andrew Keen

Typ dokumentu

Knihy

Fyzický popis

xx, 246 s. ; 20 cm

Vydáno

London : Nicholas Brealey, 2008

Vydání

New ed.

Témata

internet > sociální aspekty

internet > ekonomické aspekty

média > kulturní aspekty

blogy > sociální aspekty

informační společnost

internetové sociální sítě

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ISBN

978-1-85788-520-0