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Here Comes Everybody
By Clay Shirky
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Description
Welcome to the new future of involvement. Forming groups is easier than it's ever been: unpaid volunteers build Wikipedia together in their spare time mistreated customers can join forces to get their revenge on airlines and high street banks and one man with a laptop can raise an army to help recover a stolen phone.
The results of this new world of easy collaboration can be both good (young people defying an oppressive government with a guerrilla ice-cream eating protest) and bad (girls sharing advice for staying dangerously skinny) but it's here and as Clay Shirky shows it's affecting... well everybody.
For the first time we have the tools to make group action truly a reality. And they're going to change our whole world.
'As crisply argued and as enlightening a book about the internet as has been written' Daily Telegraph
'As usable as the technology he writes about' Independent
'Clay Shirky's masterpiece ... glittering brilliant insights that make me think yes of course that's how it all works' Cory Doctorow co-editor of Boing Boing
'Anyone interested in the vitality and influence of groups of human beings - from knitting circles to political movements to multinational corporations - needs to read this book' Steven Johnson author of Everything Bad is Good for You and Emergence
Clay Shirky writes teaches and consults on the social and economic effects of the internet. A professor at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program he has consulted for Nokia Procter and Gamble News Corp. the BBC the US Navy and Lego. Over the years his writings have appeared in The New York Times the Wall Street Journal the Harvard Business Review Wired and IEEE Computer.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
354
Release Date:
2009-01-29
Publication Date:
2009-01-29
Publisher:
Penguin
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0141030623
ISBN13:
9780141030623
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Minimum Reading Age:
0
Weight:
422 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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