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"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 AppIn Digital Vertigo, Andrew Keen presents today’s social media revolution as the most wrenching cultural transformation since the Industrial Revolution. Fusing a fast-paced... more

About Andrew Keen

ANDREW KEEN, author of The Cult of the Amateur, is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur whose writings on culture, media, and technology have appeared in The Weekly Standard, Fast Company, The San Francisco Chronicle, Listener, and Jazziz. He lives in Santa Rosa, California.


Published: May 22, 2012 by Macmillan Publishing

Genre: Business & Economics. Non-fiction. 256 pages

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  • All Critics: 8
  • Positive: 1
  • Negative: 7

  • Las Vegas Weekly | 27 Jun 2012

    And yet Keen loses, by making melodramatic overstatements... disrespecting his colleagues and combining quotes from smart people in an attempt to sound smart himself.

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  • Kirkus Reviews | 15 Apr 2012

    Occasionally insightful but tiresome and scattershot.

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  • Christian Science Monitor | 30 May 2012

    The book suffers from the same failing as many books on the Internet: a selective use of studies and anecdotal evidence to bolster its arguments.

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  • Forbes | 23 May 2012

    This time his criticism is more dire, more urgent... Keen has an alarming history of being spot on.

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  • The Australian | 7 Jul 2012

    What could have been an original tech-dissident's tale from the belly of the never sleeping beast is instead convoluted and messy.

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  • The Kernel | 10 Jul 2012

    If anything lets the book down, it is Keen’s tendency to strain at metaphors and occasionally allow his own narrative to get bogged down with citations of other journalists and academics.

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  • Times Higher Education | 26 Jul 2012

    I have no doubt that Andrew Keen is an intelligent human being, but his book is lazy and intellectually incoherent.

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  • Macleans | 10 Aug 2012

    And he sometimes turns things into threats to privacy whether they really are or not...

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