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A controversial look at the positives and negatives of our increasingly user-generated Internet culture.
In today's fast-paced and Internet-savvy world, anyone with an opinion can quickly post information, ideas, and media to hundreds of thousands of people. In minutes you can publish a blog, post a video to YouTube, alter an entry on Wikipedia, or use a multitude of file-sharing and digital piracy sites available. The time of the amateur is here, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish unbiased, authoritative Web content from your average user voicing his or her latest "masterpiece." The Cult of the Amateur questions the reliability of user-generated content and discusses the dangers that come with unregulated-or unconstrained-information.
Author Andrew Keen urges readers to consider the consequences of our current culture-the threats to more than 200 years of copyright protection; the diminishing safeguard authors, journalists, musicians, editors, and producers have for their work; the risk of plagiarism and piracy; and the weakening of traditional media institutions. A wake-up call to any reader, this book will explore the darker side of the advancement of technology and our culture's blind acceptance of its "benefits."