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
Clay Shirky quotes about
technology media long
The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long conveyer belt, the all-absorbing Yin to the mass media's all-producing Yang....In the age of the internet, no one is a passive consumer anymore because everyone is a media outlet.
technology thinking data
What I think is coming instead are much more organic ways of organizing information than our current categorization schemes allow, based on two units - the link, which can point to anything, and the tag, which is a way of attaching labels to links. The strategy of tagging - free-form labeling, without regard to categorical constraints - seems like a recipe for disaster, but as the Web has shown us, you can extract a surprising amount of value from big messy data sets.
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
technology interesting boring
Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting.
knowledge learning technology
It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.
communication technology interesting
Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.
technology want couches
Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'
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.
philosophy tools management
When you adopt a tool you adopt the management philosophy embedded in that tool.
real doing-nothing gaps
The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.
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...