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The Cult of the Amateur: How today's Internet is killing our culture
The Cult of the Amateur How today's Internet is killing our culture
Author: Andrew Keen
Amateur hour has arrived, and the audience is running the show — — In a hard-hitting and provocative polemic, Silicon Valley insider and pundit Andrew Keen exposes the grave consequences of today’s new participatory Web 2.0 and reveals how it threatens our values, economy, and ultimately the very innovation and creativity that forms ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780385520805
ISBN-10: 0385520808
Publication Date: 6/5/2007
Pages: 240
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Publisher: Currency
Book Type: Hardcover
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Needs an update or a followup volume. I read about 1/3rd of the book and skimmed the rest. Felt like the book was lacking a lot, no discussion of Facebook. When the book was written, Facebook was hardly on the radar. Amazing how dated it feels even though it was written only 5 years ago.


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