Articles by clay shirky cnn, medium, the new york times. Meetup is the platform, but the value here is in social infrastructure. In this insightful talk, clay shirky shows how the business world is changing through collaboration. Clay shirky born 1964 is an american writer, consultant and teacher on the social and. Typically, businesses are organized into a hierarchical system. Here comes everybody by clay shirky unite youth dublin. Clay shirky s work focuses on the rising usefulness of networks using decentralized technologies such as peertopeer sharing, wireless, software for social creation, and opensource development. Digital media have made creating and disseminating text, sound, and. Institutions verse cooperative collaboration by clay shirky. Clay shirky s work focuses on the rising usefulness of networks using decentralized technologies such as peertopeer sharing, wireless, software. The video by clay shirky presenting at a ted conference on institutions vs.
Online megauniversities, however defined, are unlikely to become winnertakeall institutions like amazon or facebook. Business is about a group of people working together. Clay shirky shows how closed groups and companies will offer looser. Considered one of the finest thinkers on the internet revolution, shirky provides an insightful and optimistic view of networks, social software.
Barking up the wrong tree page 1086 of 1086 how to be. Clay shirky ted talk open source democracy youtube. Chief theoreticians of this point of view are yochai bentler, ethan zuckerman, and above all, clay shirky, whose book here comes everybody 2008 can be considered the optimists bible. Clay shirky how social media can make history posted jun 2009.
Mass amateurization was first popularized by clay shirky in his 2008 book, here comes everybody. Shirky, a prescient voice on the internets effects, argues that emerging technologies enabling loose collaboration. Annotated captions of clay shirky on institutions vs. Clay shirky is todays leading voice on the social and economic impact of internet technologies. If you want to know what technology is going to change the world, dont pay attention to. More precisely, how do you organize a group of individuals so that output of the group is something coherent and of lasting value instead of just being chaos. Groups, clay shirky and online education online learning insights. This institutions verse cooperative collaboration by clay shirky. Eric barker comments july 4, 2009 clay shirky s book here comes everybody is here.
A trend that you often see with online collaboration is the power law see graph as clay shirky points out in his tedtalk institutions vs collaboration. Amid the silly videos and spam are the roots of a new reading and writing culture, says clay shirky. 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. Collaboration, notable author clay shirky posed a question, how do groups get anything done. How social media can make history clay shirky teded. And the 80 percent zone is a nocarrot and nostick zone.
Power law distribution folksonomy institutional dilemma to design systems that coordinate the output of the group as a byproduct of the operating of the system, without regard to institutional models to. Clay shirky available for speaking engagements in china. In this prescient 2005 talk, clay shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors h. Social software brings the same level of productivity increases for these people as typewriters and. Shirky notes that blogging, videosharing and photo.
In this prescient 2005 talk, clay shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and. Ist thought is that since we can see it in advance so can the institutional powerbases so while you are. Clay shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning. How do you organize a group of individuals so that the output of the group is something coherent and of lasting value, instead of just being chaos. We all know its tougher to be nimble, the bigger an organization gets. Moocs, milkshakes and clay shirkys book cognitive surplus.
Flaming and the design of social software by clay shirky. Clay shirky, who spent years studying the social effects of the internet, argues its inherent in the model of large institutions. Shirky describes in cognitive surplus how the collaborative energy time that. In this prescient 2005 talk, clay shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where. Hes become a consistently prescient voice on networks, social software, and technologys effects on society. I just finished reading clay shirkys book here comes everybody, the. The costs of running the institution mean that you cannot take on the work of those people. This presentation reveals many of the ideas and concepts that would ultimately be.
Collaboration is the act of working with others to achieve a common goal or overcome a shared challenge one of the main purposes of this site is to try to encourage councils to collaborate with. However several programs continued to develop even after this data on moocs became. In this prescient 2005 talk, clay shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning. For shirky, social media means a lowering of the costs of collaboration. The shirkymarazov social media dispute turns ugly the. Quality versus quantity or collaboration contributions. In july 2005, shirky gave a talk titled institutions vs collaboration as a part of tedglobal 2005. What the tech industry has learned from linus torvalds. In this prescient 2005 talk, clay shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser.
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