Carter journalism institute and assistant arts professor in the new media focused graduate interactive telecommunications program itp. Sep 09, 2014 why i just asked my students to put their laptops away. May 16, 2012 people across the globe are turning to social media to connect with each other in new ways. Cognitive surplus is a very narrowly defined book that offers up few thoughts of interest and mostly dwells on information that likely is already known by many using social media, or those like myself who have read a few books about the media, including some. Here comes everybody by clay shirky unite youth dublin. Mar 04, 2020 clay shirkys book is enjoyable and worth reading, though the main pointthat technological change has lowered communications costs tremendously, thereby also encouraging group formationis obvious. The political power of social media technology, the public. Firstly they do not engage with the academic literatures on social media. During the arab spring, for example, we saw protesters. People across the globe are turning to social media to connect with each other in new ways. Here comes everybody is a revelatory examination of how the wildfirelike spread of new forms of social interaction enabled by technology is changing the way humans form groups and exist within them.
In clay shirkys video, shirky speaks about how social media is affecting peoples everyday lives through the network in which has been created via the internet. Articles by clay shirky cnn, medium, the new york times. Clay shirky takes on these big questions in here comes everybody, and the result is an engaging, eyeopening book that draws upon social change theory, economics, and psychology. Computing and the net books cognitive surplus by clay shirky. Jun 19, 2009 in a wonderful ted talk recorded last month, clay shirky details why the arrival of social media on a massive scale is a true communications revolution. The ideas presented in this book are at some points interesting and relevant, because they fight against the attacks these kinds of technologies always have to face when they emerge. Clay shirky is a wide known professor of media and great defender of internet based social technologies. Digital media have made creating and disseminating text, sound, and images cheap, easy and global.
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It is a revolution no less seismic than the invention of the printing press and it portends a. Jun 30, 2019 equally, both seem naive about the desirable social changes being unleashed in new media. Clay shirky is todays leading voice on the social and economic impact of internet technologies. In the book television technology and social form, raymond williams. While news from iran streams to the world, clay shirky shows how facebook, twitter, and txts help citizens in repressive regimes report on real news, bypassing censors however briefly.
He sets out to explain how new electronic media are transforming society. Sep 09, 2019 clay shirky takes on these big questions in here comes everybody, and the result is an engaging, eyeopening book that draws upon social change theory, economics, and psychology. It was published inand already so much has changed with its subject matter social groups on the internet in the last four years. The power of organizing without organizations by shirky, clay isbn. Howard in his book about democratic revolutions in the muslim world argues. Social media and reform networks, protests, social. So argues new media and social networking theorist clay shirky in his terrifically clever, though to my mind harrowing, book.
A revolution in social organization has commenced, and clay shirky is its brilliant chronicler. Clay shirky is professor of new media at new york university and the author of cognitive surplus. How cognitive surplus will change the world ted talk. Cognitive surplus summary by clay shirky overdrive. Has here comes everybody by clay shirky been sitting on your reading list. In a wonderful ted talk recorded last month, clay shirky details why the arrival of social media on a massive scale is a true communications revolution. Cognitive surplus is a very narrowly defined book that offers up few thoughts of interest and mostly dwells on information that likely is already known by many using social media, or those like myself who have read a few books about the media, including some of the heavyweights mcluhan, boorstin, gleick, etc. Why i just asked my students to put their laptops away. When the barrier to returning something is high, we make peace with finders, keepers. Anyone interested in the vitality and influence of groups herf human beings from knitting circles, to political movements, to multinational corporationsneeds to read this book. I teach theory and practice of social media at nyu, and am an advocate and activist for the. As noble as it might be, id rather have the sophisticated analysis. Rapid forms of communication, like email, texting and social media platforms have broken down.
The political power of social media technology, the public sphere, and political change. In contrast, the last time there was a similar big earthquake in china, it. Yet they differ from the dominant tradition of writing social sci ence books. The guardian published early june the list with the greatest nonfiction books. Nov 16, 2012 while news from iran streams to the world, clay shirky shows how facebook, twitter, and txts help citizens in repressive regimes report on real news, bypassing censors however briefly. The bulk of publicly available media is now created by people who understand little of the professional standards and practices for media. Clay shirky shows how our increasingly interconnected world is transforming news and politics as well as. The political power of social media technology, the public sphere, and political change clay shirky clay shirky is professor of new media at new york university and the author of cognitive surplus. Clay shirky born 1964 is an american writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of internet technologies and journalism he has a joint appointment at new york university nyu as a distinguished writer in residence at the arthur l. Clay shirky on authorship, wiki novels, and the future of. Pdf promise and practice in studies of social media and. Jan 12, 2020 clay shirky explores the ways in which technology has altered news consumption, social work, networking, self expression, and more.
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