8 days ago by Paul Bradshaw

When media executives (and the occasional columnist on a deadline) talk about ‘the problem with the web’ they often revert to a series of recurring themes. In doing so they draw on a range of discourses that betray assumptions, institutional positions and ideological leanings. I thought I’d put toge ...

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16 days ago by jordyvleugel

Zo goed Twan?

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87 days ago by Ge Huismans

Klappen mocht pas na het vierde nummer, maar wisten wij veel! De oude meester Hermann Nitsch boog zich zelfs even over de reling van het oksaal in de Pauluskerk om de idioten die na het tweede nummer durfden te applaudiseren, even vermanend toe te spreken. Wat hij niet wist, was dat het een poging v ...

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94 days ago by mrchapel

Andrew Keen, såsom han presenteras i det... hupp, användargenererade uppslagsverket Wikipedia En av de frågor som då och då kommer upp när jag föreläser om Wikipedia, den fria encyklopedin, handlar om en bok som fått något av ett kultrykte, Andrew Keens The cult of the amateur. Eftersom jag inte har ...

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101 days ago by T. David Young

Print E-mail story Most e-mailed Change text size Is Google’s data grinder dangerous? It wants to know more about us than we know ourselves. By Andrew Keen, ANDREW KEEN is the author of "The Cult of the Amateur." ak@aftertv.com. July 12, 2007 WHAT DOES Google want? Having successfully [...]

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144 days ago by Chris Castle

I'm posting a piece by a friend and want to give a little context. In the wonderfully insightful book, The Cult of the Amateur, Andrew Keen gives a truly penetrating analysis of the myth of amateurism currently promulgated by the Vapor Class. If you haven't read the book, you should. A different aut ...

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144 days ago by johnnyryan

Working on the forthcoming book. Here’s a teaser the changed media environment… The theatres of the Elizabethan and Stuart eras were venues where ‘a thousand townsemen, gentlemen and whores, porters and serving–men together throng’. The decorum of the modern theatre did not apply. Heckles and someti ...

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152 days ago by Alec McKay

Standards have been lowered. The information age and the ever expanding accessibility of technology have given the tools and materials to create art to the masses. This phenomenon has frequently inspired jubilation, revolution, and instilled a sense of hope in the artistic future where the untapped ...

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166 days ago by Aaron

Watching this, I had a few thoughts (beyond noting that there’s a typo in the url, heheh. Go Barnes and Noble). Is the internet “dumbing us down”, or does it just enable an acceleration of the rush to the lowest common denominator that was already taking place in the mainstream media? Long before th ...

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203 days ago by jamestoned

All I know is that you love me… in my dreams. — REO Speedwagon In the web, fantasy is real—which is why it never ceases to amaze me how many creatures are addicted to happy thoughts. I couldn’t blame them really. In today’s torturous Web 2.0 fame, it’s like Hara-Kiri to show anything beyond our silh ...

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