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

摘要: Amateur hour has arrived, and the audience is running showIn a hard-hitting provocative polemic, Silicon Valley insider pundit Andrew Keen exposes grave consequences of todays new participatory Web 2.0 reveals how it threatens our values, economy, ultimately very innovation creativity that forms fabric American achievement. Our most valued cultural institutions, warnsour professional newspapers, magazines, music, moviesare being overtaken by an avalanche amateur, user-generated free content. Advertising revenue siphoned off classified ads on sites like Craigslist; television networks are under attack from programming YouTube like; file-sharing digital piracy have devastated multibillion-dollar music business threaten to undermine movie industry. Worse, claims, cut-and-paste online culturein which intellectual property freely swapped, downloaded, remashed, aggregatedthreatens over 200 years copyright protection rights, robbing artists, authors, journalists, musicians, editors, producers fruits their creative labors. In self-broadcasting culture, where amateurism celebrated anyone with opinion, however ill-informed, can publish blog, post video YouTube, or change entry Wikipedia, distinction between trained expert uninformed amateur becomes dangerously blurred. When anonymous bloggers videographers, unconstrained standards editorial filters, alter public debate manipulate truth commodity be bought, sold, packaged, reinvented. The anonymity offers calls into question reliability information we receive creates environment in sexual predators identity thieves roam free. While no LudditeKeen pioneered several Internet startups himselfhe urges us consider blindly supporting culture endorses plagiarism fundamentally weakens traditional media institutions. Offering concrete solutions rein free-wheeling, narcissistic atmosphere pervades Web, THE CULT OF AMATEUR wake-up call each every one us.From Hardcover edition.