Clay Shirky

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About Clay Shirky

Clay Shirky is an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. He teaches New Media as an adjunct professor at New York University's (NYU) graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). His courses address, among other things, the interrelated effects of the topology of social networks and technological networks, how our networks shape culture and vice-versa. They consistently are among students' top choices, and accordingly, fill up quickly.

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He has written and been interviewed extensively about the internet since 1996. His columns and writings have appeared in Business 2.0, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review and Wired.

Shirky divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. His consulting practice is focused on the rise of decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer, web services, and wireless networks that provide alternatives to the wired client-server infrastructure that characterizes the World Wide Web. Current clients include Nokia, GBN, the U.S. Library of Congress, the Highlands Forum, the Markle Foundation, and the BBC.

Before there was a Web, Shirky was vice-president of the New York chapter of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and wrote technology guides for Ziff-Davis. He appeared as an expert witness on internet culture in Shea vs. Reno, a case cited in the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to strike down the Communications Decency Act in 1996.

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  2. @Mashable: How News Consumption is Shifting to the Personalized Social News Stream

    Explore Article mashable.com (Aug 10 2010) Social Media

    @Mashable: How News Consumption is Shifting to the Personalized Social News Stream The social network of a reader is quickly becoming their personalized news wire. That’s because in the last five years, a revolutionary shift has taken place in the way we consume news. Anyone can become a journalist, editor, and curator of relevant insights. (Read Full Article)

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  3. Curating the Deck Chairs on the Titanic : Part 1 of 5 Part Series on Content Curation by @kissane

    Explore Article Incisive.nu (Jul 27 2010) Search , Social Media

    Comment "What happened to the librarians?" - Taariq Lewis

    Curating the Deck Chairs on the Titanic : Part 1 of 5 Part Series on Content Curation by @kissane ...l information mediators in place to help us replicate this mental process on a larger scale, but as Clay Shirky has pointed out, these filters have begun to fail.^4 And thus we see a host of automated, semi-aut... (Read Full Article)

    1 Comment Mentions:   Content Curation   Curation   Clay Shirky

  4. The Art of #Curation: An Interview with Maria Popova from #BrainPickings | NeboBlog

    Explore Article Web Design Company (Apr 21 2010)

    Comment "An excellent interview of Maria Popova" - Taariq Lewis

    The Art of #Curation: An Interview with Maria Popova from #BrainPickings | NeboBlog ...ators on Twitter (such as TED’s Chris Anderson and actor Alyssa Milano) or excellent bloggers (like Clay Shirky and, okay, Seth Godin) but these are, in my experience, exceptions. Just because someone is a profe... (Read Full Article)

    1 Comment Mentions:   Seth Godin   Amazon   Clay Shirky

  5. Will social media eat itself? « Bbh Labs

    Explore Article BBH Labs (Feb 19 2010) Social Media

    ... attest to but we use the term too loosely. As for the power of smaller networks, nothing new here. Clay Shirky was writing about that three or four years ago and talking about how once you reached a certain siz... (Read Full Article)

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