The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture
Andrew Keen, . . Doubleday/Currency, $24.95 (228pp) ISBN 978-0-385-52080-5
Keen's relentless "polemic" is on target about how a sea of amateur content threatens to swamp the most vital information and how blogs often reinforce one's own views rather than expand horizons. But his jeremiad about the death of "our cultural standards and moral values" heads swiftly downhill. Keen became somewhat notorious for a 2006
Reviewed on: 04/16/2007
Genre: Nonfiction
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