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Andrew Keen is a British-American entrepreneur and author, particularly known for his concerns about the Internet undermining culture and the authority of experts.

Keen earned a bachelor's degree in history from the University of London and a master's degree in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, studying under Ken Jowitt. 

==Entrepreneurial activities==
Keen's Silicon Valley career began in 1995 with the founding of audiocafe.com, which received funding from Intel and SAP. The firm folded in January 2000.

After the demise of audiocafe.com, Keen worked at Pulse 3D, SLO Media, Santa Cruz Networks, Jazziz Digital, Pure Depth and AfterTV, which he founded in 2005.

==Writings: criticism of Web 2.0==
Keen currently writes about media on his blog "The Great Seduction." Keen also produces a podcast on AfterTV.

His book The Cult of the Amateur (2007) is critical of free, user-based information-gathering Web sites such as Wikipedia.

In The Weekly Standard, Keen wrote that Web 2.0 is a "grand utopian movement" similar to "communist society," which "worships the creative amateur" and "levels the playing field" between experts and amateurs. He describes Free Culture proponent [[Lawrence Lessig]] as an "intellectual property communist", whom he "particularly detests".

Keen criticizes what he calls "digital narcissism, this embrace of the self."

==Teaching activities==
Keen has taught at Tufts University, Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts.

==External Links==
*Wikipedia bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Keen
*Personal website: http://andrewkeen.typepad.com
*Personal blog: http://andrewkeen.typepad.com/the_great_seduction
*Podcast: http://andrewkeen.typepad.com/aftertv

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