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ANDREW KEEN is the author of the international hit CULT OF THE AMATEUR: How the Internet is killing our culture. Acclaimed by The New York Times’ Michiko Kakutani as having been written “with acuity and passion” and by A.N. Wilson in the Daily Mail as “staggering”, Cult of the Amateur has been published in fifteen different language editions and was short-listed for the 2008 Higham’s Business Technology Book of the Year award.
Since the publication of Cult of the Amateur in June 2007, hundreds of newspapers, magazines and websites have featured Andrew’s writing and ideas including Newsweek, Businessweek, Wired, Reuters, CNET, Salon, International Herald Tribune, US News and World Report, London Independent, London Observer, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, La Revue Des Deux Mondes, Shanghai Daily, Financial Times, Sydney Morning Herald, Brisbane Times, the London Times, Toronto Globe and Mail, Tokyo Shinbun and many many others around the world. Several newspapers including the London Guardian, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Wall Street Journal have published debates featuring Andrew against leading
Internet luminaries such as Long Tail author Chris Anderson, Wired magazine’s founding editor Kevin Kelly, Harvard University’s David Weinberger and London Guardian’s online editor-in-chief Emily Bell.
Andrew has been a guest on many leading television and radio programs including The Colbert Report, McNeil-Lehrer “NewsHour,” the Today Show, Fox News, the Fox Business show, NPR’s “All Things Considered,” “To the Best of My Knowledge” & “Tech Nation,” CNN news in Europe and America, KCRW’s “To the Point,” many BBC shows including Newsnight, Sky news, Businessweek TV, KQED’s “Forum” as well as hundreds of podcasts and online video shows. He is a regular on the “Gillmor Gang,” the Internet’s iconic chat show about technology. He starred in the Dutch VPRO television documentary, “Wiki the Truth” and was the subject of the November 2008 BBC Radio 4 show “Iconoclasts.” He wrote and presented “The Chosen,” a two part BBC Radio 4 documentary about Silicon Valley’s new elites first broadcast in January 2009. He currently writes a weekly column about culture, technology and media for the London Daily Telegraph and for the Dutch newspaper Volkskrant.
Andrew has given keynote speeches in many countries around the world including the United States, Canada, Britain, Brazil, South Korea, Singapore, Spain, France, Germany, Holland, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Ireland, Austria and Poland. At the United Nations Conference on the Internet in November 2007 in Rio, he debated Internet founder Vint Cerf. He frequently lectures at universities including UC Berkeley, Vanderbilt, Oxford, York, Warsaw and Amsterdam, where he gave the 21st Globalization Felix Meritis lecture. He has also appeared at literary festivals in Rio de Janeiro and Los Angeles and spoken at the London Institute of Contemporary Arts and the Royal Society of Arts where he is a Fellow.
As a pioneering Internet entrepreneur, Andrew founded Audiocafe.com in 1995 and built it into a popular first generation Internet music company. He was the executive producer of the new media show “MB5 2000” and, between 2001 and 2007, worked as a executive at several Silicon Valley based technology start-ups including Pulse, Santa Cruz Networks and Pure Depth. Andrew was educated at London University where he was awarded a First Class Honours Degree in Modern History, as a British Council Fellow at the University of Sarajevo and at the University of California at Berkeley here he earned a Masters Degree in Political Science.
Andrew is currently writing a second book entitled DIGITAL VERTIGO: Anxiety, Loneliness and Inequality in the Social Media Age which will be published by St Martins Press.
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