Massimo Banzi: How Arduino is open-sourcing imagination. Enough Already: Silencing Celebs with Arduino. Open-source, open world. Clay Shirky: Institutions vs. collaboration. Mass amateurization. Mass amateurization refers to the capabilities that new forms of media have given to non-professionals and the ways in which those non-professionals have applied those capabilities to solve problems (e.g. create and distribute content) that compete with the solutions offered by larger, professional institutions.[1] Mass amateurization is most often associated with Web 2.0 technologies.
These technologies include the rise of blogs and citizen journalism, photo and video-sharing services such as Flickr and YouTube, user-generated wikis like Wikipedia, and distributed accommodation services such as Airbnb. While the social web is not the only technology responsible for the rise of mass amateurization, Clay Shirky claims Web 2.0 has allowed amateurs to undertake increasingly complex tasks resulting in accomplishments that would seem daunting within the traditional institutional model. There is no institutional hierarchy in mass amateurization. Background[edit] Clay Shirky. Clay Shirky. Clay Shirky (born 1964[2]) is an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies.
He has a joint appointment at New York University (NYU) as a Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and Assistant Arts Professor in the New Media focused graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP).[3] 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.[4] Education and career[edit] Shirky was the first Professor of New Media in the Media Studies department at Hunter College, where he developed the MFA in Integrated Media Arts program.
In the Fall of 2010, Shirky was a visiting Morrow Lecturer at Harvard University's John F. Misunderstanding the Internet. BBC Radio 4 - Do I Have a Right to Be Forgotten? Inside Egypt's Facebook Revolt - Newsweek.