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

Author:   Andrew Keen
Publisher:   Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
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9780385520812


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   12 August 2008
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Andrew Keen
Publisher:   Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Imprint:   Bantam Doubleday Dell
Dimensions:   Width: 13.40cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 20.20cm
Weight:   0.238kg
ISBN:  

9780385520812


ISBN 10:   0385520816
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   12 August 2008
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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A powerful, provocative, and beautifully written stop-and-breathe book in the midst of the greatest paradigm shift in information and communications history. <br>--Christopher M. Schroeder, CEO, HealthCentral Network (healthcentral.com), and former CEO and publisher, Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive <br> Page after page of really interesting insight and research. I look forward to the much-needed debate about the problems that Keen articulates--which can't be lightly dismissed. <br>--Larry Sanger, cofounder, Wikipedia and founder, Citizendium <br> Thoroughly engaging, brightly written pages <br>-- Chicago Tribune <br> Andrew Keen is a brilliant, witty, classically educated technoscold--and thank goodness. The world needs an intellectual Goliath to slay Web 2.0's army of Davids. <br>--Jonathan Last, online editor, Weekly Standard


<p> A powerful, provocative, and beautifully written stop-and-breathe book in the midst of the greatest paradigm shift in information and communications history. <br>--Christopher M. Schroeder, CEO, HealthCentral Network (healthcentral.com), and former CEO and publisher, Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive<br><br> Page after page of really interesting insight and research. I look forward to the much-needed debate about the problems that Keen articulates--which can't be lightly dismissed. <br>--Larry Sanger, cofounder, Wikipedia and founder, Citizendium<br><br> Thoroughly engaging, brightly written pages <br>-- Chicago Tribune <br><br> Andrew Keen is a brilliant, witty, classically educated technoscold--and thank goodness. The world needs an intellectual Goliath to slay Web 2.0's army of Davids. <br>--Jonathan Last, online editor, Weekly Standard


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ANDREW KEEN is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur whose writings on culture, media, and technology have appeared in The Weekly Standard, Fast Company, The San Francisco Chronicle, Listener, and Jazziz. As the Founder, President and CEO of Audiocafe.com, he has been featured in Esquire, Industry Standard, and many other magazines and newspapers. He is the host of the acclaimed Internet show AfterTV and frequently appears on radio and television. He lives in Berkeley, California.

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