安德鲁·基恩,美国著名媒体人,频繁出现在各大媒体节目中,如,福克斯新闻、CNN国际、BBC晚间新闻等。他还为《伦敦独立报》写一个关于企业重组的专栏,同时也在为Dutch paper Volkskrant 和the Belgium daily De Standaard 两个纸媒撰写专栏。
Amateur hour has arrived, and the audience is running the show
In a hard-hitting and provocative polemic, Silicon Valley insider and pundit Andrew Keen exposes the grave consequences of today’s new participatory Web 2.0 and reveals how it threatens our values, economy, and ultimately the very innovation and creativity that forms the fabric of American achievement.
Our most valued cultural institutions, Keen warns—our professional newspapers, magazines, music, and movies—are being overtaken by an avalanche of amateur, user-generated free content. Advertising revenue is being siphoned off by free classified ads on sites like Craigslist; television networks are under attack from free user-generated programming on YouTube and the like; file-sharing and digital piracy have devastated the multibillion-dollar music business and threaten to undermine our movie industry. Worse, Keen claims, our “cut-and-paste” online culture—in which intellectual property is freely swapped, downloaded, remashed, and aggregated—threatens over 200 years of copyright protection and intellectual property rights, robbing artists, authors, journalists, musicians, editors, and producers of the fruits of their creative labors.
In today’s self-broadcasting culture, where amateurism is celebrated and anyone with an opinion, however ill-informed, can publish a blog, post a video on YouTube, or change an entry on Wikipedia, the distinction between trained expert and uninformed amateur becomes dangerously blurred. When anonymous bloggers and videographers, unconstrained by professional standards or editorial filters, can alter the public debate and manipulate public opinion, truth becomes a commodity to be bought, sold, packaged, and reinvented.
The very anonymity that the Web 2.0 offers calls into question the reliability of the information we receive and creates an environment in which sexual predators and identity thieves can roam free. While no Luddite—Keen pioneered several Internet startups himself—he urges us to consider the consequences of blindly supporting a culture that endorses plagiarism and piracy and that fundamentally weakens traditional media and creative institutions.
Offering concrete solutions on how we can reign in the free-wheeling, narcissistic atmosphere that pervades the Web, THE CULT OF THE AMATEUR is a wake-up call to each and every one of us.</p>
(将本书序言摘于此,供大家了解本书内容) 要不是因为涉猎网络较深,我多半会以为现在就像1999年一样,硅谷正再度繁荣,网络幻想家正“东山再起”。 最近在旧金山,我遇到一位对网络极为虔诚的痴迷者。在一次霞多丽 酒会上,我们举杯畅聊,并交换了对新兴事物的看法...
评分精英主义,和反精英主义的反动 ——基恩何时走上TED大会的讲台? 基恩认为,业余人士终究是业余人士;精英总归是精英。 与基恩观点针锋相对的另一位网络研究者Clay Shirky认为,哪怕是最愚蠢的创作行为,也终归是艺术。[GSS:参见其TED报告,How cognitive surplus will cha...
评分 评分前不久,茅盾文学奖得主麦家一语惊人:“如果给我权力,我就想消灭网络。”原因是,“我也跟很多网络作家交朋友,我认为其中99.9%是垃圾,只有0.1%是精华。”很多人认为,麦家“消灭网络”的言论是对“网络民主”的一大亵渎。可是,当我第一次在微博上看到这则新闻时,恕我直言...
评分这本书没啥意思。作者是一个极端的精英主义者,虽然在结论中提出应当避免技术所带来的负面影响,还是有点警示作用,但是其立论的根据却是相当薄弱,用非常守旧的思想去看待新生的事物,盗版、欺诈、隐私这些问题不是web2.0造成的,没有互联网,这些问题依然存在,而作者却把这...
Offering concrete solutions on how we can reign in the free-wheeling, narcissistic atmosphere that pervades the Web
评分Offering concrete solutions on how we can reign in the free-wheeling, narcissistic atmosphere that pervades the Web
评分Reek of elitism. Simple-minded, empty arguments; confused logic; twisted facts.
评分Although it is too critical and cynical, it actually raises good points.
评分Reek of elitism. Simple-minded, empty arguments; confused logic; twisted facts.
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