The Cult of the Amateur
first publication date: 2007-06-05
genre: nonfiction
original title: The Cult of the Amateur
original language: English
main subject: Internet
ebooks: on Internet Archive
The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture 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.The book was based in part on a controversial essay Keen wrote for The Weekly Standard, criticizing Web 2.0 for being similar to Marxism, for destroying professionalism and for making it impossible to find high quality material amidst all of the user-generated web content. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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4- date of publication: 2007-06-05ISBN-13: 978-0-385-52080-5
- date of publication: 2008-08-12ISBN-13: 978-0-385-52081-2
- date of publication: 2008ISBN-13: 978-1-85788-520-0
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