by Andrew Keen · Doubleday · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780385520812
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«The Cult of the Amateur» is Andrew Keen's critical essay on digital culture, published by Doubleday in paperback (236 pages, in English).
A controversial essay in which Andrew Keen criticizes Web 2.0 for turning the amateur into the protagonist. He argues that blogs, MySpace and YouTube and free user-generated content erode the press, music, film and copyright, and blur the line between expert and amateur. The author proposes solutions to curb this drift.
Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year 2007.
For readers interested in the cultural and economic impact of the internet, digital journalism and the debate on participatory media.
Andrew Keen is a British-American entrepreneur and author. He is particularly known for his view that the current Internet culture and the Web 2.0 trend may be debasing culture, an opinion he shares with Jaron Lanier and Nicholas G. Carr among others. Keen is especially concerned about the way that the current Internet culture undermines the authority of learned experts and the work of professionals.
