Book Review: Andrew Keen, The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy. London and Boston, MA: Currency/Doubleday, 2007. 228 pp. ISBN…

By Atara Frenkel-Faran. New Media & Society, 2008

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Web 2.0: Conceptual foundations and marketing issues (2008, background): “Despite the positive perspectives there is still scepticism surrounding Web 2.0: Keen (2007), Keegan (2007) and Wilson (2007) argue that the Web 2.0 and specifi cally applications based on user-generated content present a real and present danger to the established culture.”
The dark side of information: overload, anxiety and other paradoxes and pathologies (2009, background): “[48] A. Keen, The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing our Culture (Nicholas Brealey Publishing, London, 2007).”
The Three P's of Pedagogy for the Networked Society: Personalization, Participation, and Productivity. (2008, background): “(Keen, 2007, p. 185) Along with these changes, tertiary student profiles indicate that most students now juggle work and study, are technology savvy, and use social networking tools as a central part of their academic and social lives (Windham, 2005).”
Production, Consumption, Prosumption (2010, background): “These models, as well as the whole idea of relying on consumers to produce, is criticized by Andrew Keen (2007) in Cult of the Amateur.”