This 60-minute YouTube video is of Andrew Keen addressing and reading from his book on Web 2.0 "The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture" on the day published, 5 June 2007, at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, California.
Highly recommended…
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It's also worth checking out Keen's blog: http://andrewkeen.typepad.com/
The clip is very, very interesting. Thank you for posting.
There are several points that should be debated over and over again. The crucial argument made is that the book is biased and that author is proud of that.
Important and interesting parts in my view are:
- We need the Middle Man.
- Ecosystem is not an algorythm.
- Media without gatekeepers are not trustworthy. We need formal and transparent gatekeepers.
- The degree of media illiteracy.
- The internet as a mirror of us, 1984 2.0 and the power of Google when colecting the information about "the world".
When he was talking about the power in the Google's hands and media (il)literacy I remembered Bentham's concept of panopticon upgraded by Foucault.
The panopticon allows an observer to observe all "prisoners" without the "prisoners" being able to tell whether they are being watched. Bentham himself described the Panopticon as "a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind, in a quantity hitherto without example."
Is it biased?
I want the book!
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