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Clay Shirky

American technology writer (born 1964)

Clay Shirky

Shirky on the Folksonomy panel at the 2005 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego, California

Born1964 (age 60–61)

Columbia, Missouri, U.S.

Alma materYale University (BA)
Occupation(s)Writer, consultant, lecturer[1]

Clay Shirky (born 1964[2]) is an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies and journalism.

In 2017 he was appointed Vice Provost of Educational Technologies of New York University (NYU), after serving as Chief Information Officer at NYU Shanghai from 2014 to 2017.[3] He also is an associate professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and Associate Arts Professor at the Tisch School of the Arts'Interactive Telecommunications Program.[4] 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.[5]

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Clay Shirky


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Clay Shirky teaches at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU, where he researches the interrelated effects of our social and technological networks. He has consulted with a variety of groups working on network design, including Nokia, the BBC, Newscorp, Microsoft, BP, Global Business Network, the Library of Congress, the U.S. Navy, the Libyan government, and Lego. His writings have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Times of London, Harvard Business Review, Business 2.0, and Wired1.

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Series

Books:

Here Comes Everybody, March 2008
Hardcover

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