by Andrew Keen · Doubleday · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781857883930
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«The Cult of the Amateur» is Andrew Keen's essay on the internet and digital culture, published by Doubleday in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Andrew Keen, a Silicon Valley veteran, criticizes participatory Web 2.0: blogs, YouTube and Wikipedia turn any user into an editor without professional filters. Keen argues that the tide of free, amateur content harms innovation and informational quality, and that anonymity encourages plagiarism and piracy.
The book was shortlisted in 2007 for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year; the original subtitle is How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy.
Reading for those interested in the debate on technology, digital culture and society, and for those seeking a critical view of Web 2.0.
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.
