Articles Posted in the " Andrew Keen " Category

  • Are Professors “Scribes?” I think therefore I’m not…

    Are Professors “Scribes?” I think therefore I’m not…

    In a recent blog post, Stevie Rocco wrote that “Professor X is a scribe.”  She wrote that as part of a larger conversation which grew from a critique of Cole Camplese’s presentation at the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Tech Forum...


  • A Dark View of the Future, 2014–Impact of the Amateurs

    A Dark View of the Future, 2014–Impact of the Amateurs

    This Flash animation gives a narrative view of the potential outcome (from the “future perspective of being in 2014 and looking back”) that we can expect when, as Andrew Keen warns, the “Cult of Amateur” pushes the experts out the...


  • “Cult of the Amateur” and Twitter

    “Cult of the Amateur” and Twitter

    In my previous post I wrote about some of my thoughts concerning three key points that I drew from Andrew Keen’s The Cult of the Amateur”. I wanted to take a few minutes to write about ways to address the...


  • “Cult of The Amateur”–Early Reflections on Keen’s Work

    “Cult of The Amateur”–Early Reflections on Keen’s Work

    I am reading Andrew Keen’s The Cult of the Amateur: How blogs, MySpace, YouTube, and the rest of today’s user-generated media are destroying our economy, our culture, and our values. It is a very interesting, and challenging book.  His general...