The Cult of Amateur promete ser um livro muito interessante. Lê-se na capa: “Como os blogues, wikis, redes sociais e o mundo digital estão a está a tomar de assalto a nossa economia, cultura e valores”.
A CNet News faz uma antevisão:
He [o autor] worries about the wisdom-of-the-crowd phenomena represented by the likes of Wikipedia or YouTube and the impact they’re having on an ADD-prone generation that embraces editor-free news sites. Technology is our friend? Don’t kid yourself, is Keen’s response. The crowd has often proved itself to be anything but wise. We may have strong opinions but so many of us remain uninformed.
Do artigo, retiro ainda um excerto do livro:
If we keep up this pace, there will be over five hundred million blogs by 2010, collectively corrupting and confusing popular opinion about everything from politics, to commerce, to arts and culture. Blogs have become so dizzyingly infinite, that they’ve undermined our sense of what is true and what is false, what is real and what is imaginary. These days, kids can’t tell the difference between credible news by objective professional journalists and what they read on joeshmoe.blogspot.com.
The Cult of Amateur sai apenas em Junho, mas já está disponível para encomenda na Amazon (o que é bem melhor do que esperar por uma eventual e potencialmente mal traduzida versão portuguesa).
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