Andrew Keen

Andrew Keen. Andrew Keen (born circa 1960[2]) is a British-American entrepreneur and author. He is particularly known for his view that the current Internet culture and the Web 2.0 trend may be debasing culture, an opinion he shares with Jaron Lanier and Nicholas G. Carr among others. Keen is especially concerned about the way that the current Internet culture undermines the authority of learned experts and the work of professionals. Life[edit] Keen was born in Hampstead, North London. Career[edit] Keen returned to Silicon Valley in 1995 and founded Audiocafe.com,[3] which received funding from Intel and SAP. Criticism of Web 2.0[edit] In 2005, Keen wrote that Web 2.0 is a "grand utopian movement" similar to "communist society" as described by Karl Marx. It worships the creative amateur: the self-taught filmmaker, the dorm-room musician, the unpublished writer.

Andrew Keen in San Francisco in 2012 Criticism of Social Exhibitionism[edit] He is not without his critics. See also[edit] The Cult of the Amateur. Andrew Keen - on Media, Culture and Technology. Andrew Keen (ajkeen) Andrew Keen Profile.