The Cult of the Amateur
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The Cult of the Amateur: How Blogs, MySpace, YouTube, and the Rest of Today's User-generated Media are Destroying Our Economy,...
By Andrew KeenA Silicon Valley insider offers a provocative look at the dark side of the new digital revolution, Web 2.0, and its detrimental influence on modern-day culture, society, and business, explaining the devastating repercussions of this cult of ...
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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...
By Andrew KeenOn YouTube, the band's video of “Beauty in the Breakdown” had been watched half a million times. And the total dollar revenue derived in digital music sales from its nine million plays on MySpace, the 1.3 million downloads on ...
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The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy
By Andrew KeenOur most valued cultural institutions - our professional newspapers,magazines, music, and movies - are being overtaken by an avalanche ofamateur, user-generated free content.....In today's self-broadcasting culture, where amateurism is celebrated...
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The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture
By Andrew KeenAmateur 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...
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The Cult of the Amateur: How blogs, MySpace, YouTube, and the rest of today's user-generated media are destroying our economy,...
By Andrew KeenOffering concrete solutions on how we can reign in the free-wheeling, narcissistic atmosphere that pervades the Web, THE CULT OF THE AMATEUR is a wake-up call to each and every one of us.