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The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture

Author Andrew Keen discusses his book "The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture" as part of the Authors@Google series. This event took place June 5, 2007 at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, CA.
We revisit this 2007 humorous, often acidic, production with one question in mind, "WAS HE RIGHT?"
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Comment by Andreas_Auwaerter on March 15, 2010 at 3:10am: Very interesting speech. About your question. Was he right? It depends on your view of culture, we should have to clearify. There is one title coming up in my mind. Is culture, what is fixed or is it in developing? Couldn't it be 2 think instead of claiming "killing cultures" to talk abut "enhancing cultures", "enriching cultures", "changing cultures" - and finally: Isn't there a need to view the beyond the Media as complex itself to make clear: It is not the media and technology, media and technology could be used as "....".

But some remarks on the content:
"If this is not a trustworthy media - Than a Media without gatekeepers is not a trust worth?" - Well what he didn't get is there could be a gatekeeper function, he didn't have in mind: Gatekeeping by the crowd ;-) Not being recognized can be a great gatekeeper.

His critique on the content f.I. on YouTube: Mixing between paid and crowded content as a problem: I am quite not sure, if he has really recipients in sense of what we (in german) call "mündig" - means to be enabled to act self-responsible during reception. Beside the fact, the traditional media seem not to be free of paid influence in total.

Ahhh what a tricky argumentation (Min: 25:00 and the following:): Because of the need of media literacy (which he concerns also the traditional media not doing a good job) culture is getting in danger through the internet? Sorry there is no logical approach. Again it depends on what we see as culture. And i guess any media educators know the diffrence between pedagogy of avoidness and pedagogy of media literacy. Where yould you sort him?