Clay Shirky
Clay Shirky
Clay Shirkyis an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
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people want groups
Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate...
people way pay
If what you're doing is valuable for people, they will find a way to pay you to keep doing it.
people community information
Curation comes up when people realize that it isn’t just about information seeking, it’s also about synchronizing a community.
agreement people needs
The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the greater the transaction costs.
inspiration people stones
Wikipedia is forcing people to accept the stone-cold bummer that knowledge is produced and constructed by argument rather than by divine inspiration.
real technology people
Prior to the internet, the last technology that had any real effect on the way people sat down and talked together was the table
past people digital-marketing
It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.
angeles centered cities english fifty group landscape los people period relatively stable talking three unusually
One of the problems with any kind of talking about the media landscape is that we've just been through an unusually stable period in which, for fifty years, English language media was centered in three cities - London, New York, and Los Angeles - around a very stable group of people working in a relatively stable set of media.
designed designers good intended people piece software
You know you've got a good piece of software when people use it for purposes for which the designers never intended or designed for.
both difference global people resources scale social tension
The difference between what all the people can do individually and the global consumption of nonrenewable resources is huge. The tension is... what will it take to get people to act in concert? There isn't any additive solution to the problem. It will be both governmental and social because that's the scale of the problem.
jobs buttons publishing
Publishing isn't a job anymore. It's a button.
needs journalism newspapers
Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism.
mean identity behavior
Amateur production, the result of all this new capability, means that the category of ‘consumer’ is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity
powerful believe thinking
Indeed, the best practical reason to think that social media can help bring political change is that both dissidents and governments think they can. All over the world, activists believe in the utility of these tools and take steps to use them accordingly. And the governments they contend with think social media tools are powerful, too, and are willing to harass, arrest, exile, or kill users in response.