Andrew Keen



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Area of interest: New media

Journals: The Independent, The Daily Telegraph

Email: [mailto:ak@ajkeen.com ak@ajkeen.com]

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Blog: The Great Seduction | Telgraph» Technology

Representation: Literary: Steve Hanselman @ Level Five media

Networks: @ajkeen on Twitter



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Education: University of London, University of Sarajevo, UC Berkeley

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Controversy/Criticism: A noted critic of the Internet especially Web 2.0 and Wikipedia:
 * Web 2.0: The second generation of the Internet has arrived. It's worse than you think - The Weekly Standard, 15th February 2008
 * Snobs.com by Jeff Jarvis
 * Is today's internet killing our culture? - Andrew Keen v Emily Bell (The Guardian, 10th August 2007)

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Books & Debate:

 * The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture OCLC 182856989, 2007

Forthcoming work: Digital Vertigo: Loneliness, Anxiety and Inequality in the Social Media Age

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The Daily Telegraph
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Articles: 2009

 * internet will devour newspapers'' - Newspapers risk being made redundant by the internet. They had better wake up to this reality - 9th October
 * politics: the defining issue of our age'' - What is the greatest political question of our age? According to Amelia Andersdotter, the Swedish Pirate Party candidate elect for the European Assembly, that question is “informational politics” - 24th September
 * Bay leads Swedish Viking charge on paid content'' - Not since Viking pirates rampaged through Christendom in the 8th century have youthful Swedes so threatened western civilisation - 11th August
 * Media can open our eyes to the value of physical life'' - The culture war over social media is raging out of control. In the latest conflagration, Vincent Nichols, the new Archbishop of Westminster, launched a vitriolic attack on the unnaturalness of social media - 5th August
 * Amazon is not Big Brother - Amazon's removal of George Orwell e-books from Kindle was not a Big Brother moment - 22nd July
 * Twitter at the heart of new real-time web innovation - The future of real-time technology is obvious, says Andrew Keen. The multi billion dollar question is when it will arrive - 15th July 2009
 * and Cheap on the Internet'' - Chris Anderson's Free and Ellen Ruppel Shell's Cheap are two books on the digital revolution well worth reading - 8th July
 * the toothless Big Brother'' - I once believed Google would become a 'digital leviathan'. Now it's falling behind the competition and risks becoming a paper tiger - 1st July
 * vs CNN: Blood on the streets'' - Is Twitter, the micro-blogging website, the news of the future? - 24th June



The Independent: New Media

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Articles: 2009

 * is up to the unwired class to get online and save themselves'' - Is innovation fair? Has the internet revolution resulted in more social justice and equality for everyone in society? - 8th June (Final column)
 * this age of the unthinkable, we must act like revolutionaries'' - What's the connection between Michael Moritz, Silicon Valley's leading venture capitalist, and Hizbollah, the Middle East's leading terrorist organisation? - 1st June
 * hyped Wolfram Alpha gets a delta minus from me'' - What is the future of wisdom on the internet? Let me offer two quite different versions. The first is scientific wisdom distributed out over the global network by a supposedly super sophisticated computer - 25th May
 * Apple-owned Twitter bird would be a cat among the pigeons'' - The killer song this spring in Silicon Valley has been the real-time chirruping of the little Twitter bird - 11th May
 * Tipping Point has finally arrived for the publishing industry'' - The medium isn't always the message - 4th May
 * Apple isn’t feeling the bite even as other tech titans stumble'' - As the global economic crisis shows little sign of relenting, it’s been another brutal week in tech - 27th April
 * word in the hallways is that the days of blogging are over'' - Is blogging dead? Last year, questioning the future of the iconic weblog would have had me sectioned. But today, in the face of the dramatic explosion of real-time social media services such as Twitter, the future of blogging is far from certain - 20th April
 * is the new social network – but you didn't hear it first'' - Twitter might be the newest new thing for millions of internet users but, for most of Silicon Valley's geekerati, it is Friendfeed that remains the hottest social networking application - 13th April
 * libraries need to start shaking the dust off and go Dutch'' - 'Are libraries old or new media?" I tweeted last week, assuming that my opinionated Twitter buddies would tell me that libraries – with their crusty old gatekeepers, shelves of dusty books and strict "no talking" policies – are quintessential old media - 6th April
 * needs to stay in touch with his 13m internet soldiers'' - Is the BlackBerry addicted Chicago politician now using the internet to transform America? - 30th March
 * papers take note and begin to think the unthinkable'' - Last week, America's digerati were abuzz with the gloomy words of a couple of the country's most lucid internet prophets - 23rd March
 * calls the tune after the day the music died on YouTube'' - Google had been unable to cut a new licensing or royalties deal for YouTube content with the Performing Rights Society (PRS), the body that collects royalties for music artists - 16th March
 * peer who's opened the debate on the internet and the mind'' - It's not often that I get asked by a Baroness to make a public appeal on her behalf. But then Baroness Greenfield is no ordinary Life Peer - 9th March (see: Social websites harm children's brains: Chilling warning to parents from top neuroscientist)
 * video is the future of the internet. No, really this time'' - Real-time video was the future in 2003. The big question is whether it still remains in the future in 2009 - 2nd March
 * need only look at Facebook to see its future problems'' - February 2009 might well go down as the month when Twitter replaced Facebook as the hottest and coolest company in Silicon Valley - 23rd February
 * plastic is the logical choice for a world without paper'' - Adieu print? Last Monday Plastic Logic, a UK-US technology start-up that is pioneering a portable plastic electronic screen, announced a series of deals with publishing companies that will, I suspect, be seen one day as the death knell of magazines and newspapers - 16th February
 * we see these great white snarks turn into Mr Nice Guys?'' - In a piece that aroused much hatred of its own, CNET technology columnist Rafe Needleman identified the five most hated online personalities - 9th February
 * American who wants Americans to be globally well-informed'' - Tip O'Neill, the former Speaker of America's House of Representatives, famously said that all politics is local - 26th January
 * healthy industry now has the printed word in its sights'' - In 2008, it became obvious that news is shifting from print to dynamic micro-blogging services like Twitter - 5th January



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 * Wikipedia bio
 * 'I don't think bloggers read'. Interview with Tim Dowling of The Guardian, 20th July 2007