Jun 13 2011
Prof. Clay Shirky
Renowned Social Media Theorist, NYU Interactive Telecommunications Professor
Prof. Clay Shirky is a best-selling author, prolific writer, educator and consultant on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. Adjunct professor in New York University’s graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program, he believes that new technologies enabling loose collaboration — and taking advantage of “spare” brainpower — will change the way society works. He discusses the effect of Facebook, Twitter and other social media in the recent uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, and what it could mean for the Middle East at large.
“Shirky is one of the handful of people with justifiable claim to the digerati moniker” WIRED
One of the top thinkers on Open Source, social networks, collaboration tools and collaborative filtering, Clay Shirky’s work focuses on the rising usefulness of decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer, wireless networks, social software and open-source development. His clients have included Nokia, the Library of Congress and the BBC. He has written and been interviewed extensively about the Internet since 1996. His columns and writings have appeared in Business 2.0, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review and Wired.[/expand]
One of the world’s top thinkers on human behaviour in social networks, Clay Shirky has become a consistently prescient voice on networks, social software, and technology’s effects on society. He provides insights into the interrelationships of social and technological networks and how they shape culture and each other and into Cognitive surplus, which he explains is important because it is a resource we have in our little corner of the 21st century that we didn’t have in the 20th century.[/expand]
Clay Shirky is a captivating, highly informative and eloquent speaker who uses humour and clear examples to illustrate his message, showing how society and our daily lives will be improved dramatically as we learn to exploit our goodwill and free time like never before.[/expand]
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Topics
Social Weather
How Cognitive Surplus Will Change the World
Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
Institutions vs. Collaboration
How Social Media Can Make History
Interactive Telecommunications
Publications
2010
Cognitive Surplus
2008
Here comes everybody
2002
Planning for Web Services
1995
Voices from the Net
1994
The Internet by E-mail
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