1. Andrew Keen defines democratized media the ability that everyone is able to contribute something to the internet. New ideas, thoughts, comments, and styles can be produced by whoever wants to. One of his main issues with democratized media is that it is destroying culture. Having people righting rumors or creating bad art helps to diminish the culture in which we live in. Another main point is that the democratized media is ruining business for artists. Stealing art and music is very prevalent on the web and it takes away from the money that artist may gain. File sharing is a very popular idea on the web right now. Rapidshare is one of these servers.
2. Douglas Rushkoff and Andrew Keen are both worried about social media and how it relates to society, but the different in what aspect of society they focus on. Andrew Keen is more interested in the public and how they interact with social media and Douglas Rushkoff is more concerned how the internet is ran by people as a corporation. Andrew Keen's ideas certainly speak to me more. I feel the artist's woes when they get their music ripped off of a file sharing server. It is not fair to their hard work they have put in to make the album. Also the fact that the internet is now ran by amateurs is very true. Amateurs help to make the internet an unsafe and unorganized.
