The Cult Of The Amateur

Author : Andrew Keen
Publisher : Broadway Business
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cult of the Amateur written by Andrew Keen and published by Broadway Business. This book was released on 2007 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a hard-hitting and provocative polemic, Silicon Valley insider Keen exposes the grave consequences of todays new participatory Web 2.0. He reveals how amateur, user-generated free content threatens the very innovation and creativity that forms the fabric of American achievement.

Author : Dan Hunter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415782651
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amateur Media written by Dan Hunter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of Web 2.0 has pushed the amateur to the forefront of public discourse, public policy and media scholarship. Typically non-salaried, non-specialist and untrained in media production, amateur producers are now seen as key drivers of the creative economy. This edited collection provides a much-needed interdisciplinary contextualisation of amateur media before and after Web 2.0. Surveying the institutional, economic and legal construction of the amateur media producer via a series of case studies, it features contributions from experts in the fields of law, economics, media studies and literary studies based in the US and Australia.

Author : Andrew Keen
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 185788437X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cult of the Amateur written by Andrew Keen and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new, updated edition, with a new foreword of Andrew Keen's witty and provocative polemic against the rise of user-generated content and the anything goes standards of much online publishing, which set the blogosphere and media alight on publication. Dubbed the 'anti-christ' of Silicon Valley and a dot-com apostate Andrew Keen is the leading contemporary critic of the Internet. and The Cult of the Amateur is a scathing attack on the mad utopians of Web 2.0 and the wisdom of the crowd. Keen argues that much of the content filling up YouTube, MySpace, and blogs is just an endless digital forest of mediocrity which, unconstrained by professional standards or editorial filters, can alter public debate and manipulate public opinion.

Author : Mark Howard Moss
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739169882
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Education and Its Discontents written by Mark Howard Moss and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education and Its Discontents: Teaching, the Humanities, and the Importance of a Liberal Education in the Age of Mass Information, by Mark Moss, is an exploration of how the traditional educational environment, particularly in the post-secondary world, is changing as a consequence of the influx of new technology. Students now have access to myriad of technologies that instead of supplementing the educational process, have actually taken it over. Faculty who do not adapt face enormous obstacles, and those who do adapt run the risk of eroding the integrity of what they have been trained to teach. Moss discusses that it is now not only how we learn, but what we continue to teach, and how that enormously important legacy is protected.

Author : Jack Hitt
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307955184
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bunch of Amateurs written by Jack Hitt and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHAT IS IT THAT DRIVES THE SUCCESS OF AMERICA AND THE IDENTITY OF ITS PEOPLE? ACCLAIMED WRITER AND CONTRIBUTING EDITOR TO THIS AMERICAN LIFE JACK HITT THINKS IT’S BECAUSE WE’RE ALL A BUNCH OF AMATEURS. America’s self-invented tinkerers are back at it in their metaphorical garages—fiddling with everything from solar-powered cars to space elevators. In Bunch of Amateurs, Jack Hitt visits a number of different garages and has written a fascinating book that looks at America’s current batch of amateurs and their pursuits. From a tattooed young woman in the Bay Area trying to splice a fish’s glow-in-the-dark gene into common yogurt (all done in her kitchen using salad spinners) to a space fanatic on the brink of developing the next generation of telescopes from his mobile home, Hitt not only tells the stories of people in the grip of a passion but argues that America’s history is bound up in a cycle of amateur surges. Beginning with Ben Franklin’s kite and leading all the way to the current TV hit American Idol, Hitt argues that the nation’s love of self-invented obsessives has always driven the country to rediscover the true heart of the American dream. Amateur pursuits are typically lamented as a world that just passed until a Sergey Brin or Mark Zuckerberg steps out of his garage (or dorm room) with the rare but crucial success story. In Bunch of Amateurs, Hitt argues that America is now poised to pioneer at another frontier that will lead, one more time, to the newest version of the American dream.

Author : Takševa, Tatjana
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1466621796
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Software and the Evolution of User Expertise: Future Trends in Knowledge Creation and Dissemination written by Takševa, Tatjana and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new generation of internet technologies and web applications is seeing a growth in social software and networking, as well as other communications tools. This infrastructure of social interaction and collaboration has provided an increase in more dynamic user participation and expertise in knowledge of contents and facts traditionally only held by experts. Social Software and the Evolution of User Expertise: Future Trends in Knowledge Creation and Dissemination examines the vital role that social software applications play in regards to the cultural definitions of experts and challenges the reader to consider how recent changes in this area influence how we create and distribute knowledge. This collection brings together scholars and practitioners from various disciplines and professions to project a new kind of thinking about the understanding of the major changes in many professions.

Author : Helen Nicholson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137508108
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ecologies of Amateur Theatre written by Helen Nicholson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first major study of amateur theatre, offering new perspectives on its place in the cultural and social life of communities. Historically informed, it traces how amateur theatre has impacted national repertoires, contributed to diverse creative economies, and responded to changing patterns of labour. Based on extensive archival and ethnographic research, it traces the importance of amateur theatre to crafting places and the ways in which it sustains the creativity of amateur theatre over a lifetime. It asks: how does amateur theatre-making contribute to the twenty-first century amateur turn?

Author : Andrew Keen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cult of the Amateur written by Andrew Keen and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Curt Kraus
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1417503564
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Party and the Arty in China written by Richard Curt Kraus and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2004-04-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that cultural reform is a key aspect of political reform, Richard Kraus shows here that China's economic transformation has dramatically liberated the production and consumption of culture. In this original and provocative study, Kraus offers a political analysis of Chinese culture that includes all genres of art. Surveying the evolution of China's cultural politics between 1979 and 2003, this book explores the complex relationship between money and art as exemplified by declining state arts patronage, changing standards for painting nudity, censorship, and the professionalization of artistic work. Cogent, witty, and deeply informed, this comprehensive overview of the Chinese arts scene will be an essential text for all observers of contemporary China.

Author : Josef Bairlein
Publisher : epodium
ISBN 13 : 3940388211
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Netzkulturen written by Josef Bairlein and published by epodium. This book was released on 2011 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ob als Telefonnetz oder Internet, soziales Netzwerk oder Wissensnetz – das Bild des Netzes steht paradigmatisch für eine Kultur dynamischer Verknüpfungen. Der ästhetische Gegenstand erscheint heute als distribuiertes und instabiles Gebilde. Hierin steht er dem Autor in nichts nach. Dieses Buch nimmt Netzkulturen und Spielarten distribuierter Ästhetik ins Visier, die gesicherte Perspektiven auf und Formen von Kunst- und Medienperformance zunehmend in Frage stellen. Die Beiträge thematisieren Performanzen beim Blick auf aktuelle Tendenzen in Film, Theater, Kunst und Medienkultur. Sie zeichnen Netzwerke verteilter Autorschaft nach, beschreiben hybride Gegenstände und analysieren vernetzte Produktivkräfte.