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Defender of the expert's realm.
Byline: Mark Chillingworth
Defender of the expert's realm
' analysis
A book is a fitting medium to argue for a reassessment of how Web 2.0 is affecting information and information users, because, as Andrew Keen's polemic points out, the book as a medium could be under threat.
Relaxed and eager to discuss the implications of Web 2.0, former web entrepreneur and commentator Keen is no Luddite. He just believes in broadening out the debate before too much damage is done to our academic, cultural and information heritage.
Imagine a cataclysmic change to the way in which information is created and received, with an information regime that pays little heed to universities or respected business information databases. Newspapers have gone the way of the watermill in a world where information and knowledge sharing is not created through a body of excellence that seeks to polish every inch of its creation, but through individuals, each of whom is the author, editor, publisher and distributor of their work. This is the world depicted by Keen's book, The Cult of the Amateur.
loss of creativity
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Source: HighBeam Research, Defender of the expert's realm.