This is Andrew Keen. He is a British American entrepreneur and author and he's particularly known for his views of the Internet and technology culture. Andrew goes on to talk about within his interview that Web 2.0 is used when he was currently given the interview is now considered dead and the new web is more social media for example Facebook and other social media platforms. He goes on to say that we should no longer judge the Internet worlds by older standards and instead look at it as if it's a whole new animal.
He dives in and states that the main problem that we're all having is we forgotten the lack of respect for old media and that we are too busy focusing on the little details and nitpicking the media.
He coined this type of behavior as the “cult of the amateurs” (Keen,) and where he says that it's a crisis for a couple of reasons one is the world is too polarized in its opinions and they are less intolerant about how they view the world. He goes on to mention essentially that the Internet is the reason our political infrastructure and social infrastructure are failing.
He compared our social media and social media platforms to a type of voyeurism to an extent. Which is not entirely wrong and has created in a way a new social culture of people posting their lives and us as viewers wanting to know more intimately about their lives whether they feel inclined or uninclined to share.
He further goes on to state that the problem is how information through technology is being spread and by whom it's being spread. These two factors change how the political and social structure of people's lives are especially with the dissemination of information whether that's for better or for worse depending on how people absorb that information and he said instead of individual transparency we need individual secrecy.
This coupled with the fact that not many think about how information or technology spreads information to one another many people nowadays when they seek to state information, they don't separate facts from fiction he goes on to mention that these people posting information online and through social media are not professionals and yet we take it as if it is. And then that brings into question the advancement of technology who it is benefiting just like during the westward expansion as mentioned in the online class and PowerPoint within chapter one who the manifest destiny is benefiting it's certainly not the Native Americans who were pushed out of their home and essentially had a genocide committed towards them. But no one brought that fact up for the most part and in fact many times we don't learn about Native Americans within our U.S. history classes they're usually pushed aside because westward expansion was more beneficial to white men who in the time had more power and was more populous.
So my question to you all is can we create an enviornment where we can have individual secrecy? Have you ever had an experience where people violated your right to privacy on socila media?
This is the link to the PDF of the Keen interview located above.
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