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Unpopular opinion: everyone's an expert on the Internet. Is that such a bad thing?(The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture )(Book review)

Publication: Communication World
Publication Date: 01-JAN-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture by Andrew Keen Currency/Doubleday, 2007 240 pages

Keen ignores the fact that for every recognized expert, there are a dozen other passionate experts who have just as much information and insight. The...

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In Cult of the Amateur, author Andrew Keen despairs of Wikipedia that "everyone with an agenda can rewrite an entry to their liking."

Keen, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who writes about culture, media and technology, has produced a book about...

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