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#*<i>democratized</i> digital media to obfuscate truth and manipulate | |||
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Revision as of 16:00, 7 November 2010
Abstract
Andrew Keen: Introduction. In: The Cult of the Amateur. How Today's Internet is Killing our Culture, Crown Business, 2007.
- T.H. Huxley's Theory
- If you provide infinite monkeys with typewriters, some monkey will eventually create a masterpiece – a play by Shakespeare, a Platonic dialoge, or an economic tractise by Adam Smith.
- foretells the consequences of a flattening culture that is blurring the lines between traditional audience and author, creator and consumer, expert and amateur
- Web 2.0
- today's technology hooks all those monkeys up with typewriters
- internet users with networked personal computers
- they are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity
- at the heard of self-publishing is the internet diary, the blog
- kids can't tell the difference between professional journalism and blogs
- for Generation Y utopians, every posting is just another version of the truth
- Wikipedia
- the third most visited site for information and current events
- infinite monkeys providing infinite information for infinite readers
- perpetuating the cycle of misinformation and ignorance
- everyone can rewrite an entry to their liking
- YouTube
- portal of amateur videos and world's fastest growing site
- infinite gallery of amateur movies showing everyday activities
- tagline for YouTube is Broadcast Yourself
- Google
- logic of its search engine (algorithm) reflects the wisdom of the crowd
- the more people click on a link, the more likely the link will come up again
- Google just tells us what we already know
- Digg and Reddit
- ordering of headlines reflects what other users have been reading
- rather than the expert judgment of news editors
- Reddit is a mirror of our most banal interests
- Personal Attention
- shameless self-admiration of the mythical Narcissus
- desire for personal attention is driving the new Internet economy
- social-networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, Bebo
- claim to be social networks but exist to advertise ourselves
- Old Media
- old media is facing extinction, but what will take its place?
- say goodbye to today's experts and cultural gatekeepers
- WIki-Novel
- literary experiment sponsored by the British publisher Penguin
- invites anyone to contribute to a collective online novel
- but can a collaboration of amateur voices create a coherent work?
- Politics
- medium of choice for distorting the truth about politics and politicians
- democratized digital media to obfuscate truth and manipulate
- Cost of Democratization
- blurring of lines between the audience and author obscures objectivity
- difficult to determine the difference between reader wand writer
- Business 2.0
- who matters most? – YOU! the consumer as creator
- free information by Wikipedia vs. encyclopedia like Britannica
- free music or video on YouTube vs. sale of CD or DVD
- nobody becomes rich from blogging
- Talent
- talent requires work, capital, expertise, investment
- it requires the complex infrastructure of traditional media
- Artificial Intelligence
- Pandora.com, Goombah.com, Moodlogic.com
- engines that can tell what music or movies we will like
- but artificial intelligence is a poor substitute for taste