The Cult of the Amateur
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The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture (ISBN 0385520808) is a 2007 book written by entrepreneur and Internet critic Andrew Keen. Published by Currency, Keen's first book is a critique of the enthusiasm surrounding user generated content, peer production, and other Web 2.0-related phenomena.
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Contents
- The great seduction
- The noble amateur
- Truth and lies
- The day the music died, side A
- The day the music died, side B
- Moral disorder
- 1984, version 2.0
- Solutions.
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See also
- Blogging
- Craigslist
- Crowdsourcing
- Intellectual property
- Internet gambling and internet pornography
- Journalism
- MySpace
- Publishing
- Wikipedia
- YouTube
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