a messy post starting with Lessig on Keane and ending with me
Lawrence Lessig has written an inordinately clever review of Andrew Keen's The Cult of the Amateur: How today's Internet is killing our culture. I'm quite sure Keen has a few valid points, but Lessig's comments convince me more than Clay Shirky's semi-defence of Keen's main ideas.
A side-point: I find it particularly interesting to read the section entitled "The Least Important (Lessig) Fallacy", where Lessig comments on Keen's interpretations of his ideas. I do wonder how many scholars I misinterpret throughout my thesis? You know, communication and dialogues are really just continuous misinterpretations :)
Btw, I was quoted in Norwegian tabloid Dagbladet, apparently having said: "We are in the midst of a gigantic psychological experiment, which for ever will change the traditional distinction between public and private. As if I said that! Well of course, boundaries between private and public are being adjusted, partially because of individual online practices, but, "gigantic psychological experiment". Oh well, I'm learning to live with my tabloid self.
Labels: communication, media, participatory culture, personal
1 Comments:
thanks for posting this - Lessig scores, and made me laugh about Andrew Keen, which is quite an achievement. Have you seen this other post by Clay Shirky where he argues that Keen's argument is fundamentally a Luddite one (and that the Luddites were not anti-market or anti-technology, but acting to protect their industry from innovations that threatened to destroy expertise)? link.
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