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Andrew Keen, Larry Lessig, Web 2.0 »

[31 May 2007 | One Comment | 327 views]

Andrew Keen’s new book, The Cult of the Amateur, attacks the rise of the “amateur” amid various Internet and Web 2.0 phenomena, and outlines the various harms — economic, social, cultural and political — these amateurs will inevitably cause. I haven’t had the chance to read the book yet, but its been getting a lot of attention already, much of it negative.
Perhaps the best critique I’ve come across comes from Larry Lessig. I’ve found useful ideas is some of Keen’s other writings, but Prof. Lessig’s reaction gives me pause regarding …

Andrew Keen, Blogging, Cellphones, Facebook, Facial recognition, GPS, Identity, MySpace, Netaveillance, Online Privacy, Privacy in Public, Web 2.0, YouTube »

[29 May 2007 | No Comment | 574 views]

[This thought piece appears on the On The Identity Trail project's blog, blog*on*nymity. Thanks to the amazing folks there for the (second) invitation to contribute to the project. -mz]
This post is an attempt to collect and organize some thoughts on how the rise of so-called Web 2.0 technologies bear on privacy and surveillance studies. After presenting a few examples of unintended consequences of Web 2.0 that bear on privacy and surveillance, I will introduce the term “netaveillance,” which might provide a useful concept around which a more robust theory of …

Andrew Keen, Technology & Society, Web 2.0 »

[15 Mar 2006 | No Comment | 276 views]

I’m late commenting on this, but I just read Andrew Keen’s provocative piece in the Weekly Standard on the Web 2.0 movement. Keen has received considerable criticism for making comparisons between the Web 2.0 meme and Marxism, but he does make some valid points about the utopianism and solipsism that seems to underlie much of the Web 2.0 discourse. In particular, he criticizes the fervent commitment to technological progress:
The ideology of the Web 2.0 movement was perfectly summarized at the Technology Education and Design (TED) show in Monterey, last year, …