Who is Clay Shirky?
Clay Shirky is a professor in New York University's graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program, where he teaches a course called "Social Weather". He is also the author of several books, including Here Comes Everybody, Voices from the Net and Cognitive Surplus and an expert on social technologies. He has written and been interviewed extensively on the topic of the Internet since 1996. His columns and writings have appeared in Business 2.0, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Wired and Harvard Business Review. In 2012 Shirky gave a talk entitled "Why SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) is a bad idea" at TED Salon in New York - it received over 1 million views in 48 hours.
In this TED talk, Shirky describes the crucial role social media is having, and will continue to have, on our lives. As quoted by TED: "Clay Shirky's work focuses on the rising usefulness of networks - using decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer sharing, wireless, software for social creation, and open-source development. New technologies are enabling new kinds of cooperative structures to flourish as a way of getting things done in business, science, the arts and elsewhere, as an alternative to centralized and institutional structures which he sees as self-limiting. In his writings and speeches he has argued that "a group is its own worst enemy."
[If you would like to see his talk on "Why SOPA is a bad idea", click here.]
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