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Clay Shirky teaches at the Interactive Telecommunications program at New York University and is the author, most recently, of Here Comes Everybody, about how new means of communication are changing the social environment. 
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Our latest podcast is called “Who Runs the Internet?” (You can subscribe to the podcast at iTunes, get the RSS feed, or listen via the media player above. You can also read the transcript; it includes credits for the music you’ll hear in the episode.)
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Clay Shirky, a futurist at New York University, advocated for a "distributed version control democracy" in a recent TED talk. The New York state Legislature is already experimenting with this on its OpenLegislation platform, while the OpenGov Foundation, a nonprofit organization cofounded by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., is doing something similar on the federal level, allowing anyone to comment on and annotate legislation pending before the House.
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What kind of criticism works and should you listen to? Great ‘epistemological’ keynote by Clay Shirky.
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Clay Shirky was the opening keynote at the NFAIS Annual Conferencethis weekend. According to Shirky, the fact that our customers are connected matters, but the fact that they’re networked matters even more.
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In an op-ed piece in the New York Times, an author complained about repeatedly being asked to write for free, but what he finds so insulting is something many others see as an opportunity — and it is not going away any time soon
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That was the heart of the keynote address from academic, public intellectual and new media thinker Clay Shirky at the first ever Code for America Summit held in San Francisco last week.
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Clay Shirky is one of the most revered and respected thinkers on the impact of the web on culture and media. He’s also a very vocal critic of micropayments—one-time payments for individual pieces of web content. Why? Because consumers don’t like them, he says. “Small payment systems don’t survive contact with online markets because we express our hatred of small payments by switching to alternatives,” he reiterated in a much-cited 2009 blogpost. “Such systems solve no problem the user has, and offer no service we want.”
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Clay notes that he’s lived through two sorting out times: the question of whether the web would be important, and questions of whether social media would spread. In these periods of sorting out, technology looks like a solution in search of a problem, because at that point it is. Over time, we find answers to the question – will it work? will it scale – and it ultimately does. Clay suggests that we’re now at that point with civic media. We need to listen to the helpful critics, and we need to stop listening to the corrosive ones so we can keep moving forward.
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In one corner of this New Yorker festival production was best-selling novelist and maybe-lovable curmudgeon Jonathan Franzen. He was there to represent a starchy, Luddite view. Franzen is the author of million-selling The Corrections and Freedom (and two other novels!) but others know him best as the man who defied Oprah. In the other corner was media and technology theorist Clay Shirky. Shirky is the only person to simultaneously hold positions in New York University’s arts and journalism schools, Henry Finder, the day's referee and editorial director at The New Yorker, said. Shirky was there to represent the cyber utopian view that the technology (and the Internet, specifically) is the answer to all of society’s ills. (Okay, not all.)
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An astute observer of culture and technology, Thompson has plenty of terms to share. In Smarter Than You Think, a smart yet scattered book, he champions the idea that the Internet is not, in fact, turning us into a society of facile thinkers. Even as the Internet alters old literacies, it creates new ones. And rather than a society of people enslaved by computer screens, he sees a world where people become solvers of puzzles, fluent manipulators of data, people who use Internet connectivity to break down barriers.
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I gave a talk last year to a group of TV executives gathered for an annual conference. From the Q&A after, it was clear that for them, the question wasn’t whether the internet was going to alter their business, but about the mode and tempo of that alteration. Against that background, though, they were worried about a much more practical matter: When, they asked, would online video generate enough money to cover their current costs?
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Clay Shirky, Associate Professor in the Interactive Telecommunications Program and Journalism Department at NYU, Fellow at the Berkman Center, and Edward R.
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Clay's amazed that President Obama was allowed by his staff to get up and compare Healthcare.gov to Amazon.com on October 1st, when the site was already beginning to fail. Worse, he drove more people to a site already buckling under its traffic load. That's not a technology problem, that's a problem with political culture, and an inability to tell the boss the truth. Clay expects change within the government's technology leadership.
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Writer and new media consultant Clay Shirky talks about possible transformations for governments of the future, where we are likely to see greater hybridization between states, citizens and communities. This interview was filmed for the documentary 'Us Now'
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Clay Shirky talks to Alan Rusbridger about the attempts to pass legislation in the US congress to control the spread of copyrighted content and the spontaneo…
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The idea that electronic media would bring the world together is not particularly original—remember Marshall McLuhan’s “global village”?—but its proponents have always been hazy on the details. Are we to celebrate the fact that the “Gangnam Style,” a satire of South Korean hipster lifestyle, has garnered roughly 1.8 billion views on YouTube when most viewers probably never got the joke?
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Clay Shirky's writings about the Internet, including Economics and Culture, Media and Community, Open Source
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+Clay Shirky gave a wonderful keynote yesterday at the Code for America Summit.
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Kojak-cum-Tom Hanks is how you might describe Clay Shirky (pictured below), expert on the effects of the Internet on society, and author of "Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age". Bald and smiley, he'd been brought in to discuss with Jonathan Franzen (jowlier and thicker-girthed than his publicity photos suggest, pictured right)the effects of technology on culture. "Shirky invented the Internet, and Franzen wants to shut it down," joked Harry Finder, the New Yorker’s editorial director, preparing the audience for a gloves-off, luddite v cybertopian bloodbath.
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Social media guru Clay Shirky looks at "cognitive surplus" — the shared, online work we do with our spare brain cycles. While we're busy contributing to the web in our small ways, we're building a better, more cooperative world.
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