Archive for the 'Andrew Keen' Category
Lessig on Keen’s “The Cult of the Amateur”
Thursday, May 31st, 2007Andrew 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 […]
Privacy and Surveillance in Web 2.0: Unintended Consequences and the Rise of “Netaveillance”
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007[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 […]
Keen: Web 2.0, Marxism, and Unintended Consequences
Wednesday, March 15th, 2006I’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 […]




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