8 edition of cult of the amateur found in the catalog.
cult of the amateur
Andrew Keen
Published
2007
by Currency Doubleday in New York
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Written in English
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-221) and index.
| Statement | Andrew Keen. |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | HM851 .K43 2007 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | xv, 236 p. ; |
| Number of Pages | 236 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL17069555M |
| ISBN 10 | 9780385520812 |
| LC Control Number | 2007048058 |
This post has been podcast. Months ago I set out to read Cult of the Amateur, by Andrew Keen, Doubleday I want to review this book but I can't because it makes me so angry I can't finish it. I fling it across the room and leave it for weeks before I try again. So far I've made to page Read "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" by Andrew Keen available from Rakuten Kobo. Amateur hour has arrived, and the audience is running the show In a hard-hitting and provocativBrand: Crown.
I recently finished reading The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our book was recommended to me by one of the folks I met at the NASA tweetup last November as I was remarking about the differences between “old” and “new” media. The book is written by Andrew Keen, someone who has been in and around Silicon Valley from before Web started. Write your own review of The Cult of the Amateur by Andrew Keen, read other people's reviews and browse book information about from The Cult of the Amateur.
A dear friend handed me Andrew Keen’s The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet Is Killing Our Culture, and proclaimed it "the worst book in the universe."Intrigued, I decided I had to sample a chapter or two. [Coincidentally, the paperback edition was released today.] I ended up devouring all of it. Missing the mark, The Cult of the Amateur is long on hyperbolic rhetoric (see above) and short on subtle thinking and balance. It stretches out arguments that ought to fill a 15 page article to pages, and reiterates the same points again and again. (Although targeted to the business community, the book places no premium on efficiency.).
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That's the theme of Keen's new book, The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture, which is basically an extended paean to the lost Golden Age of /5. Tomorrow is the official on-sale date for Andrew Keen’s “The Cult of the Amateur,” but the book is already getting lots of attention.
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For one thing: "Amateur" is never defined. Professionalism is a complicated concept in the fields of literature, music, visual arts, and dance (the last is a field this book does not cover, but it is one I.
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The book’s subtitle, How today’s Internet is killing our culture, gives a strong taste of what he is up to.The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture by Andrew Keen and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at The full title of the book is–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.
Wow, look at him go. The first ten pages of the book were fairly thought provoking, if fairly logic-free.
