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Book Reviews March 2011

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Culture and Materialism Raymond WilliamsVerso, 1980ISBN: 9781844676637
Raymond Williams has written many books on Marxism, Literary Criticism and Culture. Culture and Materialism is a selection of his essays, mostly written in the 1970's. Continued..
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The cult of the amateur Andrew KeenNicholas Brealey, 2008ISBN: 9781857885200
In the past, publishing our work usually meant going via a large organisation. The coming of the internet has changed that, now any of us can display our work to the world at minimal expense. Andrew Keen thinks this is a move in the wrong direction. In The Cult of the Amateur: How blogs, MySpace, YouTube and the rest of today's user-generated media are killing our culture and economy he argues that the internet is damaging our society. Continued..
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