Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
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| Rating | : | 4.16 (946 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0143114948 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 344 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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His writings have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Times of London, Harvard Business Review, Business 2.0, and Wired, and he is a regular keynote speaker at tech conferences. Navy, and the Libyan government. Clay Shirky teaches at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU, where he researches the interrelated effects of our social and technological networks. Shirky lives in Brooklyn. He has consulted with a
"So Why Am I Writing This Review?" according to Ron Tarro. So why am I writing this review? Well Clay Shirky would probably tell me (in part) that my sharing of perspectives "anchors community" and that sharing also enhances my standing within the community. So I'm helping build our society (Woohoo. I have a high social conscience!!!) while also enhancing my own social standing (Oops. I'm a social climber?). On the other hand I may also be an artful evader of real world respo. Troy Janisch said Social media and the Infinite Monkey Theorem. Subtitled "The power of organizing without organizations," the latest edition of Skirky's "Social media and the Infinite Monkey Theorem" according to Troy Janisch. Subtitled "The power of organizing without organizations," the latest edition of Skirky's 2008 book is a rich collection of well-documented case studies illustrating the affects social media have on the way that people behave. Shirky contends that social media platforms such as Facebook, Flickr and Wikipedia are successful because they feed an underlying human desire for group participation. That is, it's less about th. 008 book is a rich collection of well-documented case studies illustrating the affects social media have on the way that people behave. Shirky contends that social media platforms such as Facebook, Flickr and Wikipedia are successful because they feed an underlying human desire for group participation. That is, it's less about th. Required reading for Web 2 Amazon Customer I ordered and read this book based on the recommendation of colleagues and because of the following videos by Clay:[]I'm not a big reader of "business" books, but I read this cover-to-cover in just a few sittings. I am trying to make sense of this whole "Web 2.0" business and this book clarified, for me, the concept and the practical uses of the technology (i.e. it's not just to be able to see pictures of Aunt Clara's
Like Lawrence Lessig on the effect of new technology on regimes of cultural creation, Shirky's assessment of the impact of new technology on the nature and use of groups is marvelously broad minded, lucid, and penetrating; it integrates the views of a number of other thinkers across a broad range of disciplines with his own pioneering work to provide a holistic framework for understanding the opportunities and the threats to the existing order that these new, spontaneous networks of social interaction represent. A midwestern professor of Middle Eastern history starts a blog after 9/11 that becomes essential reading for journalists covering the Iraq war. A wide group of unrelated people swarms to a Web site about the theft of a cell phone and ultimately goads the New York City police to take action, leading to the culprit's arrest. You don't have to have a MySpace page to know that the times they are a changin'. A revolution in social organization has commenced, and Clay Shirky is its brilliant c
Readers will appreciate the Gladwellesque lucidity of his assessments on what makes or breaks group efforts online: Every story in this book relies on the successful fusion of a plausible promise, an effective tool, and an acceptable bargain with the users. From Publishers Weekly Blogs, wikis and other Web 2.0 accoutrements are revolutionizing the social order, a development that's cause for more excitement than alarm, argues interactive telecommunications professor Shirky. (Mar.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Print journalism falters as publishing methods are transformed through the Web. Grassroots activism stands among the winners—Belarus's flash mobs, for example, blog their way to unprecedented antiauthoritarian demonstrations. . Shirky is at h