Difference between revisions of "Andrew Keen"
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His book The Cult of the Amateur (2007) is critical of free, user-based information-gathering Web sites such as Wikipedia. | 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". | + | 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." | Keen criticizes what he calls "digital narcissism, this embrace of the self." | ||
