These references are in no particular order. Please contribute your own links and annotations.


Keen, Andrew. The Cult of the Amateur.

Rebuttal by Lawrence Lessig.

Like Sven Birkerts in The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age (1994), Keen believes that web 2.0 tools are fundamentally changing western civilization. For Keen, "our whole culture is swept away by the dire consequences of Web 2.0 egalitarianism." Lawrence Lessig agrees that some of the issues raised by Keen need to be seriously considered, but he argues that Keen's book itself points out the weaknesses of print culture.

Connectivism: A learning theory for today's learner.

George Siemens's site "to foster discussion on how our thinking, learning, and organizational activities are impacted through technology and societal changes" includes a blog, a wiki, and a discussion board.