Web 2.0: Opening up, or dumbing down?

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Web 2.0: Opening up, or dumbing down?

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Are Google, Wikipedia, YouTube, and other Web 2.0 giants the scourge of American culture, laying waste to its 20th-century institutions and dumbing down society? Or is the Internet’s latest incarnation a cultural liberator, unlocking the long-suppressed artistic energies of the masses and nurturing democracy?

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