Clay Shirky - cognitive surplus
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2008: Clay Shirky , outlining the basic idea that would become his book Cognitive Surplus : So how big is that surplus? So if you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia, the whole project — every page, every edit, every talk page, every line of code, in every language that Wikipedia exists in — that represents something like the cumulation of 100 million hours of human thought. I worked this out with Martin Wattenberg at IBM; it’s a back-of-the-envelope calculation, but it’s the right order of magnitude, about 100 million hours of thought. And television watching?
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L'auteur, consultant et professeur qui a le don de la formule choc s'intéresse à l'impact social d'Internet sur les entreprises et sur la société. Les institutions vont tout tenter pour préserver le problème dont elles sont la solution. Cette affirmation de l'Américain Clay Shirky est connue sous l'appellation du " principe de Shirky " (Shirky Principle). Il en fait son pain et son beurre depuis 1996, année où il a commencé à se pencher sur l'impact social d'Internet. Depuis, il a publié plusieurs livres dont les plus célèbres sont Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations et Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age . On peut aussi le lire régulièrement dans les pages du New York Times , de la Harvard Business Review et de Wired .
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Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky | Book review | Books | The Observer
Every single year for the second half of the 20th century, the amount of television watched by humanity increased. Collectively, we now watch more than one trillion hours of television every year – something not entirely unlike, as Clay Shirky sees it, tipping the free time of the world's educated citizenry (their "cognitive surplus") down an intellectual plughole. It's not that television is evil, or even bad. It's just that, as a medium, it's incredibly good at soaking up leisure and producing very few tangible results.Clay Shirky captured the ethos of social media with his book "Here comes everybody." He follows that book up with one that concentrates on the fundamentals of turning our cognitive surplus into value. Cognitive Surplus provides a compelling and clear description of the fundamentals of social media and collaboration as well providing principles that are guiding developments and innovation in this space. There are many books out there that either describe the social media phenomenon or profess to provide a `recipe' for success. Neither of these approaches can provide you with the insight needed to effectively experiment and deploy social media for the simple reason that social media is changing too fast. The book is organized into seven chapters that outline a complete way of thinking about social media.
Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age (9781594202537): Clay Shirky: Books
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The business environment for newspapers continues to be grim. Pew recently reported that advertising revenue rebounded in 2010 for all forms of media, except newspapers. * This might just be a matter of transitioning from print to digital revenues but for the fact that the market values a print reader far more than a digital one. The more or less official label for this problem is “analog dollars to digital dimes”; because of the enormous difference in assumed value per reader, lost value from print is not made up for by gains in digital readership. The ‘analog dollars to digital dimes’ problem doesn’t actually seem to be a problem. It seems to be a feature of reality. Digital revenue per head is not replacing lost print revenue and, barring some astonishment in the advertising market, it never will.I hold a joint appointment at NYU, as an Associate Arts Professor at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) and as a Distinguished Writer in Residence in the Journalism Department. I am also a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society , and was the Edward R. Murrow Visiting Lecturer at Harvard's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy in 2010.
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