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

Paperback • 2010

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

By Andrew Keen

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About the book

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 a...Show more

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2010

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

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