Clay Shirky at the RSA on the 18th March 2008 on the subject of his book “Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organising without Organisations”.
Clay Shirky is a writer, teacher and consultant on the social and economic effects of Internet Technologies. He is adjunct professor at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, and has a website at www.shirky.com
Shirky argues that social networking is now technologically boring enough to have become socially interesting. The ability to engage in effective group action using the Internet is increasingly within the grasp of wider sections of society. The unfolding result of this is a sweeping re-adjustment of societal and organisational power relations.
