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Here comes everybody : the power of organizing without organizations

Title
Here comes everybody : the power of organizing without organizations / Clay Shirky.
Author
Shirky, Clay.
Publication
New York : Penguin Press, 2008.

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327 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
"Everywhere you look, you can see groups of people coming together to share with one another, work together, or take some kind of public action. A political protest in Eastern Europe seems unconnected to the shared creation of an encyclopedia or to the recovery of a mobile phone, but all of these effects and a thousand others have the same root cause: For the first time in human history, our communications tools support the group conversation and group action. Gathering a group of people and getting them to act used to require significant resources, giving the world's institutions a kind of monopoly on group effort. Now, though, the tools for sharing and cooperating on a global scale have been placed in the hands of individual citizens." "In Here Comes Everybody Clay Shirky gives us his analysis on what the impact of this social revolution will be - for better or for worse - on what we do and who we are."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • Information technology > Social aspects
  • Computer networks > Social aspects
  • Internet > Social aspects
  • Online social networks
  • ICT
  • Internet
  • Sociale aspecten
  • Sociale netwerken
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [308]-319) and index.
Contents
Ch. 1. It Takes a Village to Find a Phone -- Ch. 2. Sharing Anchors Community -- Ch. 3. Everyone Is a Media Outlet -- Ch. 4. Publish, Then Filter -- Ch. 5. Personal Motivation Meets Collaborative Production -- Ch. 6. Collective Action and Institutional Challenges -- Ch. 7. Faster and Faster -- Ch. 8. Solving Social Dilemmas -- Ch. 9. Fitting Our Tools to a Small World -- Ch. 10. Failure for Free -- Ch. 11. Promise, Tool, Bargain.
ISBN
  • 9781594201530
  • 1594201536
LCCN
2007035110
OCLC
  • ocn168716646
  • SCSB-9058978
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries