Andrew Keen: 6 books

"Digital Vertigo provides an articulate, measured, contrarian voice against a sea of hype about social media. As an avowed technology optimist, I'm grateful for Keen who makes me stop and think before committing myself fully to the social revolution." —Larry Downes, author of The Killer...

The renowned Internet commentator and author of How to Fix the Future“expos[es] the greed, egotism and narcissism that fuels the tech world” (Chicago Tribune). The digital revolution has contributed to the world in many positive ways, but we are less aware of the Internet’s deeply negative...

Amateur hour has arrived, and the audience is running the show In a hard-hitting and provocative polemic, Silicon Valley insider and pundit Andrew Keen exposes the grave consequences of today’s new participatory Web 2.0 and reveals how it threatens our values, economy, and ultimately the...

Keen’s previous book, The Internet Is Not the Answer, was widely praised by the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Financial Times, and Economist, among others, and chosen as a best book of the year by Kazuo Ishiguro in the New Statesman. As consensus builds around the problems caused...

I social media stanno indebolendo e frammentando la nostra identità: essi ci disorientano e ci dividono, non instaurano affatto una nuova era comunitaria e di uguaglianza fra gli esseri umani. Il tragico paradosso della nostra vita è l’incompatibilità tra il nostro profondo desiderio di appartenenza...

Oggi che Internet è arrivato a collegare quasi tutti e tutto sul pianeta, sostenere che si tratti di uno strumento capace di democratizzare gli aspetti positivi dell’umanità e disgregare quelli negativi, creando un modo più aperto e paritario, è una falsa promessa. Di fronte alle tante domande...