Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
by Clay Shirky · 28 Feb 2008 · 313pp · 95,077 words
CHAPTER 9 - FITTING OUR TOOLS TO A SMALL WORLD CHAPTER 10 - FAILURE FOR FREE CHAPTER 11 - PROMISE, TOOL, BARGAIN EPILOGUE Acknowledgements BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX Praise for Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody “A fascinating survey of the digital age . . . [Shirky has] a knack for converting sociological concepts into easy-to-understand prose. . . . An
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Twitter, each new wave of digital communications generates more upheaval for businesses. In his recent book, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, Clay Shirky explores the ramifications of a world in which people can find each other and collaborate with increasing ease.” —The Wall Street Journal “Shirky convincingly argues
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provocative it stays with you for a while.” —The Atlantic Monthly “Amateur circles of ordinary people are wresting power and creativity back from the oligarchs. . . . [Clay Shirky] offer[s] incisive analysis of the new day as it dawns. . . . Precise and intellectually fresh . . . Here Comes Everybody is more than a simple celebration of
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’s ‘gatekeeper’ structure.” —Columbia Journalism Review “I don’t think you’ll find a smarter, more articulate writer on the topic of internet community than Clay Shirky. . . . If you’re developing social software of any kind, this book should be required reading.” —D: All Things Digital “Meat and potatoes anecdotes about communication
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tools.” —statesman.com “Seriously, Clay Shirky’s new book is really good. (For once, no irony or snark: it’s just very well done.) Each time someone as insightful as
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Clay Shirky starts writing for the Web, the internet will get 1 percent better. Send 99 more Shirkys.” —hotdogsladies.com “Remarkable.” —politico.com “Terrifically clever.” —Stuart Jeffries,
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(UK) “Shirky astutely discerns the implications of people acting on their own. . . . A perceptive appraisal of the contemporary technology-society interface.” —Booklist ABOUT THE AUTHOR Clay Shirky writes, teaches, and consults on the social and economic effects of the internet, and especially on those places where our social and technological networks overlap
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America by The Penguin Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 2008 Published in Penguin Books 2009 Copyright © Clay Shirky, 2008 All rights reserved Here comes everybody: the power of organizing without organizations / Clay Shirky. p. cm. eISBN : 978-1-440-63224-2 1. Information technology—Social aspects. 2. Computer networks—Social aspects
Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
by Clay Shirky · 9 Jun 2010 · 236pp · 66,081 words
4 - Opportunity Chapter 5 - Culture Chapter 6 - Personal, Communal, Public, Civic Chapter 7 - Looking for the Mouse Acknowledgements NOTES INDEX ABOUT THE AUTHOR ALSO BY CLAY SHIRKY Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations THE PENGUIN PRESS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New
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Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England First published in 2010 by The Penguin Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. Copyright © Clay Shirky, 2010 All rights reserved LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Shirky, Clay. Cognitive surplus : creativity and generosity in a connected age / by
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Clay Shirky. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. eISBN : 978-1-101-43472-7 1. Information society. 2. Social media. 3. Mass media—Social aspects. I.
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alone and World of Warcraft Yahoo.com young people beef protests of opportunities and television viewing and YouTube Zagat Z-Boys Zeroprestige ABOUT THE AUTHOR Clay Shirky teaches at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University, where he researches the interrelated effects of our social and technological networks. He has consulted
The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity
by Tim Wu · 4 Nov 2025 · 246pp · 65,143 words
movement had seen personal liberation as the goal, the Internet seemed to offer a tool for unlocking the latent creativity and passion within every soul. Clay Shirky, author and technology pundit, captured the tech-optimistic mood of the mid-2000s with a slogan: “Here comes everybody.”[2] Anyone could have their own
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Age of Tech Optimism David A. Kaplan, The Silicon Boys: And Their Valley of Dreams (New York: William Morrow, 1999). BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 1 Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (New York: Penguin, 2008). BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 2 Glenn Reynolds, An Army of Davids: How
To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
by Evgeny Morozov · 15 Nov 2013 · 606pp · 157,120 words
a field of inquiry, combined with the irresistible pull of Internet-centrism, renders the highly problematic areas of the underlying theoretical frameworks almost invisible. Take Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody, which enjoys a cult status in geek circles as a seemingly original argument about the falling costs of collaboration. For much
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to explain any kind of behavior, no matter complex or culturally specific, using the dry talk of incentives and opportunities. It’s no wonder that Clay Shirky can explain the behavior of anorexic girls, open-source communities, revolutionaries in East Germany, and rebellious teenagers in Belarus through one clean theory of information
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least because Coase is a Nobel Prize–winning economist. References to Coase pop up regularly in the work of our Internet theorists; in addition to Clay Shirky, Yochai Benkler also draws heavily on Coase to discuss the open-source movement. There is nothing wrong with Coase’s theories per se; in the
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condition as well as their lack of empathy for industries and institutions that are currently in crisis. Ruptures, after all, often involve sacrifices—or, as Clay Shirky likes to say, “it’s not a revolution if nobody loses.” In order to be valid, any declaration of yet another technological revolution must meet
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attends to and the questions it formulates—is constructed in revolutionary terms? No one exemplifies the temptations and limitations of the rupture talk better than Clay Shirky, so perhaps it’s worthwhile to return to his theories. Shirky sees the digital revolution everywhere, but it’s especially pronounced in the media business
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the new printing press seems to have hijacked the public imagination. It’s one of the core precepts of Internet-centrism. Thanks, in part, to Clay Shirky, Gutenberg’s invention has now become one of the original myths of “the Internet”—never mind the more than five hundred years in between. Two
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Boorstin makes this dubious statement—have you watched television lately?—the rest follows quite naturally, with the kind of bombast that one could expect from Clay Shirky or Jeff Jarvis: “The era when television became a universal engrossing American experience, the first era when Americans everywhere could witness in living colors the
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attack, with many Internet renegades gearing up to replace it with nimble, Internet-based organizing. Much of this new rhetoric can be traced back to Clay Shirky’s populist and anti-organizational thinking in Here Comes Everybody; the book carries the telling subtitle “The Power of Organizing without Organizations.” Cue the Shirky
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” everywhere they see it, not to engage in analysis of what kinds of organizational structures would be more appropriate for a given reform agenda. Cue Clay Shirky deploying his trademark lingo of rational-choice theory in Here Comes Everybody: “Newly capable groups are assembling, and they are working . . . outside the previous strictures
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WikiLeaks conversation took place outside of it.” Groups win; nation-states lose. Networks good; hierarchies bad. Global good; local bad. The problem here is that Clay Shirky believes that global affairs now work according to the demands of “the Internet,” while, in reality, the story is much more complicated. A conversation about
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is patently ridiculous to rank it ahead of a dozen other places, and in particular such world-class restaurants as Lespinasse, Jean Georges, and Daniel.” Clay Shirky tells the same story in Cognitive Surplus, and his version brims with populist, antiestablishment rage against professional critics and promises that, thanks to “the Internet
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-truly-open-knowledge/252516 . 39 “At the very same time [that “the Internet” is blamed]”: Weinberger, Too Big to Know, xii. 40 Here Comes Everybody: Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations (New York: Penguin, 2009). 40 Susanne Lohmann’s explanation of the 1989 protests in East Germany
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and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment (New York: Random House Digital, Inc., 2009), 147. 41 “behavior is motivation that has been filtered through opportunity”: Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators, reprint ed. (New York: Penguin Books, 2011), 195. 41 “share a propensity to engage in method-driven
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-Century Medicine?,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 38, no. 1 (March 2007): 20–42. 48 “When someone demands to know”: Clay Shirky, “Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable,” Shirky.com, March 13, 2009, http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable. 48 “the more
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serious you are about believing something is a revolution”: “Richard S. Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press with Clay Shirky,” John Shorenstein Center, October 14, 2011, http://shorensteincenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/salant_lecture_2011_shirky.pdf. 49 “nothing will work, but everything
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Thinking the Unthinkable.” 49 “There is never going to be a moment”: Shirky, Here Comes Everybody, 73. 49 dedicates several pages of his Cognitive Surplus: Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators, reprint ed. (New York: Penguin Books, 2011), 42–56. 49 “we’re collectively living through 1500”: Shirky
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, “Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable.” 49 “It is too early to tell”: Clay Shirky, “Tools and Transformations,” Penguin Group, March 11, 2008, http://us.penguingroup.com/static/html/blogs/tools-and-transformations-clay-shirky. 49 “It’s not much of an exaggeration”: Marshall Poe, “The Internet Changes Nothing,” History News
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, and Citizens More Powerful (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2009), 44. 125 “democratic theory and the design”: ibid., 16. 125 “Newly capable groups are assembling”: Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations (New York: Penguin, 2009), 24. 126 “there was no way the State Department
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”: Clay Shirky, “Richard S. Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press with Clay Shirky,” John Shorenstein Center, October 14, 2011, http://shorensteincenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/salant_lecture_2011_shirky.pdf. 126
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. 176 “if you want to know how good a restaurant is”: ibid. 176 “Union Square Café is, indeed”: ibid. 176 “nowhere does Shaw spell out”: Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators, reprint ed. (New York: Penguin Books, 2011), 151. 177 “unwilling to condemn Union Square”: ibid. 177 “Back
The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
by Martin Gurri · 13 Nov 2018 · 379pp · 99,340 words
revolution, since it’s much too early for that. Thoughtful interpretations of the genesis and nature of the change have been written by Yochai Benkler, Clay Shirky, and Glenn Reynolds, among many others.[3] If you wish to understand the world being formed outside your windowpane, let me introduce you to this
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minor feats of collaboration – finding a donor for a bone marrow transplant, for example. But real politics happened among comrades and in the flesh.[24] Clay Shirky has noted that a committed activist with strong personal ties to others also can expand his reach by becoming a Facebook warrior. There’s no
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loudest voices of cyber-pessimism. I have noted their cautions. Let’s move on. The favorite goat of cyber-skeptics and cyber-pessimists has been Clay Shirky, whose 2008 book, Here Comes Everybody, was described by Gladwell as “the bible of the social media movement” – that is, of the cyber-utopian crowd
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this book. And it was arrived at, in part, by pursuing threads of analysis about the nature and consequences of new media first spun by Clay Shirky. Homo Informaticus, Or How Choice Can Bring Down Governments There remains the question, central to my thesis, of how information can influence political power. The
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program and President Obama’s efforts to recover from the consequences. I have already noted the botched delivery of the health insurance website. Here is Clay Shirky’s take on the planning process followed by the government to develop the $400 million site: The management question, when trying anything new, is “When
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4, 2011. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/sep/04/israel-protests-social-justice. Shirky, Clay. “Healthcare.gov and the Gulf Between Planning and Reality.” Clay Shirky blog, November 19, 2013. http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2013/11/healthcare-gov-and-the-gulf-between-planning-and-reality/. Shirky, Clay. “The Political Power
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] Malcolm Gladwell, “Small Change: Why the Revolution Won’t Be Tweeted,” The New Yorker, September 27, 2010. [25] Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (Penguin Books, 2008). [26] Clay Shirky, “The Political Power of Social Media: Technology, the Public Sphere, and Political Change,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 90 No. 1
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, 2014, http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21592610-insurgent-parties-are-likely-do-better-2014-any-time-second-world. [270] Clay Shirky, “Healthcare.gov and the Gulf Between Planning and Reality,” Clay Shirky blog, November 19, 2013, http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2013/11/healthcare-gov-and-the-gulf-between-planning-and-reality/. [271
Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts
by Jill Abramson · 5 Feb 2019 · 788pp · 223,004 words
, there were no outward signs. Meanwhile those who eagerly dove into the digital world grew tired of the hand-wringing over the plight of newspapers. Clay Shirky, a journalism professor at New York University, wrote an influential article called “Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable.” The unthinkable was the total disappearance of the
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lesson of Times Select’s failure: “There is only one thing that can happen should The Times put a meter on us. It will shrink.” Clay Shirky, an adherent of social media, argued that paywalls were self-defeating because they “locked the public out” of important conversations about the news. Within the
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and Facebook were the best ways to follow what was happening. Crowdsourcing and citizen journalism were beginning to bear important fruit. I was influenced by Clay Shirky, author of the book Here Comes Everybody, who warned against pointless nostalgia for print papers, which would inevitably die. The important thing was that quality
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Saloon,” speech delivered to the American Society of Newspaper Editors convention, Seattle, Washington, April, 2006, https://www.poynter.org/news/last-call-asne-saloon. Clay Shirky, a journalism professor: Clay Shirky, “Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable,” Shirky (blog), March 13, 2009, http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/. One
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, BuzzMachine: Jeff Jarvis, “The Cockeyed Economics of Metering Reading,” BuzzMachine, January 17, 2010, https://buzzmachine.com/2010/01/17/the-cockeyed-economics-of-metering-reading/. Clay Shirky, an adherent: Decca Aitkenhead, “Clay Shirky: ‘Paywall Will Underperform—the Numbers Don’t Add Up,’ ” Guardian, July 5, 2010, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jul/05
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/clay-shirky-internet-television-newspapers. He saw less of his two: Emma Gilbey Keller, “A Family Life in News: Emma Gilbey Keller on Bill Keller’s New
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) is FAKE NEWS!” Twitter, 6:06 am, June 28, 2017, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/880049704620494848?lang=en. BIBLIOGRAPHY Anderson, C.W., Emily Bell, and Clay Shirky. “Post-Industrial Journalism: Adapting to the Present.” Geopolitics, History, and International Relations, vol. 7, no. 2 (2015): 32–123. Bell, Emily, Taylor Owen, Smitha Khorana
Curation Nation
by Rosenbaum, Steven · 27 Jan 2011 · 286pp · 82,065 words
in data, and our need to be able to find information in coherent, reasonably contextual groupings. No one doubts that we’re shifting, as author Clay Shirky says, from an era of content scarcity to one of content abundance. And while that seems on one hand bountiful, it’s also quite impossible
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and crafts fair, there’s a simple answer. Journalists who see themselves as victims of technology have the currently dominant media outlets to broadcast kvetching. Clay Shirky is the ideal observer of all this noisy change. An actual adult who’s almost preter-naturally youthful, he teaches at New York University’s
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see the linked economy as a bonanza waiting to be monetized by forward-thinking media companies. It’s hardly a balanced debate. But folks like Clay Shirky say that the shift toward collaborative content creation and sharing are more fundamental than just new technology and low-cost content creation. “Arguments about whether
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part, is motivation. Journalists and professionals curate for profit, to build audience. And the mission of their management is to monetize that audience. But as Clay Shirky explores in his book Cognitive Surplus, individual curators have a much more altruistic motivation: “When publication, the act of making something public—goes from being
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sharp knives and equally sharp rhetoric. I’m speaking of course of the world of foodies and the elite highbrow world of the food critic. Clay Shirky says the crowd-sourced reviews from actual patrons often provide more value than the expert restaurant critics who’ve made their livings and reputations making
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the real-time Web is that it’s a change that no one asked for, much like the advent of 24-hour cable news. As Clay Shirky explains it, news used to end with the 6 p.m. sign-off the air. No more news till tomorrow morning—sleep tight. And you
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Rosenbaum: “Is ‘Everyone’ the Media now?” huffingtonpost.com, April 8, 2010. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-rosenbaum/is-everyone-the-media-now_b_530303.html Clay Shirky: Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations. Penguin Press 2008 Chapter 8 David Sarno: “Twitter creator Jack Dorsey illuminates the site’s founding
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://blogmaverick.com/2010/02/10/seth-godin-should-read-his-own-book “Mark Cuban” retrieved from wikipedia.org. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Cuban Clay Shirky: Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age. Penguin Press 2010 Chapter 16 Lucas Conley: “How Rapleaf Is Data-Mining Your Friend Lists to
The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age
by Astra Taylor · 4 Mar 2014 · 283pp · 85,824 words
the costs of creating and distributing culture have plummeted. New tools not only have made cultural production more efficient but have equalized opportunity. NYU professor Clay Shirky, perhaps the leading proponent of this view, calls this process “social production.” Harvard’s Yochai Benkler uses the term “peer production,” business writer Jeff Howe
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one Wired cover story rehashing this old idea).18 New-media thinkers do not pretend this future has come to pass, but in Cognitive Surplus Clay Shirky presents what can be read as a contemporary variation on this old theme, explaining how the cumulative free time of the world’s educated population
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produced. The challenge is to understand how power and influence are distributed within this mongrel space where professional and amateur combine. Consider, for a moment, Clay Shirky, whose back-flap biography boasts corporate consulting gigs with Nokia, News Corp, BP, the U.S. Navy, Lego, and others. Shirky embodies the strange mix
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Now (blog), September 1, 2010, http://www.iftf.org/future-now/article-detail/aint-gonna-work-on-ariannas-farm-no-more/. 14. For example, both Clay Shirky (in Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age [New York: Penguin Press, 2010]) and Lawrence Lessig (in Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive
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.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/09-132.pdf. Dan Hunter and John Quiggin, “Money Ruins Everything,” Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal 30 (2008). 15. Clay Shirky says it is not labor if people enjoy it. Jeffrey R. Young, “The Souls of the Machine,” Chronicle of Higher Education, June 13, 2010. 16
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, 2012. 19. Shirky fails to mention that many of these hours are inevitably spent filling out forms, looking at porn, watching TV online, etc. 20. Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age (New York: Penguin Press, 2010), 209. Also see “Cognitive Surplus: The Great Spare-Time Revolution,” Wired
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, May 24, 2010. 21. Clay Shirky has a blog post called “The Collapse of Complex Business Models” predicting as much, posted April 1, 2010, http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/04
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Haven, Conn.: Yale University, 2006), 242, on the conflict between possible policy interventions and liberal democratic theory. In a post about power laws and inequality, Clay Shirky makes a related point: “Because it arises naturally, changing this distribution would mean forcing hundreds of thousands of bloggers to link to certain blogs and
Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change From the Cult of Technology
by Kentaro Toyama · 25 May 2015 · 494pp · 116,739 words
do to improve the quality of life around the world is to drive connectivity and technological opportunity.”5 And then there are technology cheerleaders like Clay Shirky, who shakes pom-poms for Team Digital in a book subtitled How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators.6 Many engineers and computer scientists also hold
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2009 Iran – hype that led Hillary Clinton’s State Department to ask Twitter to postpone routine maintenance during the height of protests. (Twitter complied, and Clay Shirky wrote, “This is it. The big one. This is the first revolution that has been catapulted onto a global stage and transformed by social media
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applicable for older students. University professors, including me, increasingly prohibit device use in the classroom. “I’m a pretty unlikely candidate for internet censor,” wrote Clay Shirky. “But I have just asked the students in my fall seminar to refrain from using laptops, tablets, and phones in class.”29 Common Sense in
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catchy ideas that serve poetry, it’s not a good basis for accurate analysis or sound policy. 46.60 Minutes (2011). 47.Morozov (2011). 48.Clay Shirky makes these exuberant comments in an interview with TED owner and curator Chris Anderson (2009). 49.Gladwell (2011). 50.Taylor (2011). 51.Yaqoob and Collins
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/footnotes/dec06/indextwo.html. Anderson, Chris. (2008). The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More. Hyperion. ———. (2009). Q&A with Clay Shirky on Twitter and Iran. TED Blog, June 16, 2009, http://blog.ted.com/2009/06/16/qa_with_clay_sh/. Angelucci, Manuela, Dean Karlan, and
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Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators. Penguin. ———. (2011). The political power of social media. Foreign Affairs, Jan./Feb. 2011, www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67038/clay-shirky/the-political-power-of-social-media. ———. (2014). Why I just asked my students to put their laptops away. Medium.com, https://medium.com/@cshirky/why
Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom
by Rebecca MacKinnon · 31 Jan 2012 · 390pp · 96,624 words
of Sidi Bouzid. The emergence of the Arab digital commons and its natural relationship with the broader global commons is a textbook example of what Clay Shirky, a technology and social theorist at New York University, has described in two influential books about how people use and contribute to the commons. The
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journalists from the deeper question of what Internet freedom actually means. GOALS AND METHODS Writing in Foreign Affairs in late 2010, New York University’s Clay Shirky critiqued Washington’s obsession with circumvention. Such an “instrumental” approach, he argued, is counterproductive in the long run. The main problem that circumvention technology aims
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to be built. The point of activism is to reach, convince, and engage the largest number of people as quickly and effectively as possible. As Clay Shirky has pointed out, technology becomes most powerful only after it has become commonplace. “The invention of a tool doesn’t create change,” he writes in
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, and the Unmaking of an Era (Washington, DC: Foreign Policy Institute, 2011). 24 Clay Shirky, a technology and social theorist at New York University: Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (New York: Penguin Press, 2008); and Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age (New York: Penguin Press
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Allocates Final $28 Million for Internet Freedom Programs,” National Journal, May 3, 2011, www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20110503_8059.php. 191 Clay Shirky critiqued Washington’s obsession with circumvention: Clay Shirky, “The Political Power of Social Media,” Foreign Affairs 90, no. 1 (January–February 2011): 28–41. 193 as Ethan Zuckerman of Harvard
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, Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age (New York: OR Books, 2010). 233 “The invention of a tool doesn’t create change”: Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (New York: Penguin Press, 2008), 105. 233 “cute-cat theory of digital activism”: Ethan Zuckerman, “The
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