
The Cult of the Amateur
How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture
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Andrew Keen
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Andrew Keen
Our most valued cultural institutions, Keen warns, our professional newspapers, magazines, music, and movies, are being overtaken by an avalanche of amateur, user-generated free content. Advertising revenue is being siphoned off by free classified ads on sites like Craigslist; television networks are under attack from free user-generated programming on YouTube and the like; file-sharing and digital piracy have devastated the multibillion-dollar music business and threaten to undermine our movie industry.
Worse, Keen claims, our "cut-and-paste" online culture, in which intellectual property is freely swapped, downloaded, remashed, and aggregated, threatens over 200 years of copyright protection and intellectual property rights, robbing artists, authors, journalists, musicians, editors, and producers of the fruits of their creative labors.
The very anonymity that the Web 2.0 offers calls into question the reliability of the information we receive and creates an environment in which sexual predators and identity thieves can roam free. While no Luddite - Keen pioneered several Internet startups himself - he urges us to consider the consequences of blindly supporting a culture that endorses plagiarism and piracy and that fundamentally weakens traditional media and creative institutions.
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"Mr. Keen...writes with acuity and passion about the consequences of a world in which the lines between fact and opinion, informed expertise and amateurish speculation are willfully blurred." (The New York Times)
hard to swallow
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Highly recommended. A must read for those who put a lot of faith in web 2.0.
Great Book
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6 hours and 22 minutes of ranting
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At the end of the whole thing I found myself wondering what the point was - knowing because it had been pounded into me throughout the story - and not believing that there's anything wrong with the "amateur" challenging the common professional or even the "expert" that might know what he's read or learned in years of experience. I believe, as most Internet people probably do, that sometimes the expert doesn't know what's best and the "amateur" will come up with the next best thing and/or the right idea. The author's hypothesis was quite a bit different, suggesting that the amateur is taking over and that the power is nearly destroying what we know as expert opinion and knowledge. Quite different from how I and most of my peers view things.
Hope that helps for those of you considering this book - perhaps enough to save your credits and wait for it to hit the sale rack.
A painful voyage from a single perspective
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Too negative
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The author is also the narrator and part way through the book I found him very pompous. Thinking I might be thinking this because of his British accent, I went online and read book reviews that accused him of the same thing.
Because I had such high hopes for this book, I continued listening to the complaining and hoped the author was just setting me up for some awesome finish.
I am somewhat happy that in the last chapter the author does offer some solutions and success stories. Unfortunately they are way too late and he does not talk as passionately about them as the problems.
If you are looking for a book to argues why Web 2.0 is bad, then this book is for you.
If you want a realistic or objective book on the problems of Web 2.0, look elsewhere.
Whiny with few solutions
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basic sensational scare tactics
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good but not amazing
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keen tries to dramatize every single sentence. as i was listening to chapter one, i was thinking: "hmmmm, by the tone of his voice, and the amount of melodrama, we're reaching the climax of the book already."
Then i realized having a "climax" in a non-fiction book is unusual, and i also realized that every sentence thereafter was similarly narrated.
An additional comment
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It should be noted that much of the book is about problems of the internet (and humanity) at large, not about Web 2.0 in particular. Several chapters concern topics such as online gambling, porn addiction, identity theft, screen addiction, omnipresent commercialization of personal data, and data breaches, rather than platforms for crowdsourcing or for online-to-offline business, as the book's title suggests.
Mostly one-sided, sometimes prophetic
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