"We use the web to confirm our own partisan views and link to others with the same ideologies. Bloggers today are forming aggregated communities of like-minded amateur journalists...where they congregate in self-congratulatory clusters. They are the digital equivalent of online gated communities where all the people have identical views and the whole conversation is mirrored in a way that is reassuringly familiar. It's a dangerous form of digital narcissism; the only conversations we want to hear are those with ourselves and those like us."
Andrew Keen, The Cult of the Amateur.
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Exactly! Down with the gated communiites!
ReplyDeleteI second that.
ReplyDeleteI third that! The wankers. Enemies of the state. Damn them all. A hex on them.
ReplyDeleteYou're so right Lauren. Thank goodness for voices like you. I too am angry.
ReplyDeleteI disagree. Do you hate me?
ReplyDeleteYou know Sandrine, you rock. It all makes sense reading your post. Keep it up sister!
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