Clay Shirky

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Clay Shirky (born 1964) is an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. He teaches New Media as an adjunct professor at New York University's (NYU) graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). 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. He has written and been interviewed extensively about the Int

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5 total works indexed

1. The gut microbiota as an environmental factor that regulates fat storage

   · 2004 · cited 5,145x

2. Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

   · 2016 · cited 4,396x

3. Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger^*

   · 2017 · cited 3,591x

4. Guidelines for the Prevention of Stroke in Patients With Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack

   · 2014 · cited 3,405x

5. Gut Microbiota from Twins Discordant for Obesity Modulate Metabolism in Mice

   · 2013 · cited 3,264x

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Quotes

• “When we change the way we communicate, we change society.”
• “If I had to pick the critical technology for the 20th century, the bit of social lubricant without which the wheels would've come off the whole enterprise, I'd say it was the sitcom. [...] For the first time, society forced onto an enormous number of its citizens the requirement to manage something they had never had to manage before--free time.”
• “Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups. The aggregate relations among individuals and groups, among individuals within groups, and among groups forms a network of astonishing complexity.”
• “We use the word "organization" to mean both the state of being organized and the groups that do the organizing... We use one word for both because, at a certain scale, we haven't been able to get organization without organizations; the former seems to imply the latter.”
• “The typical organization is hierarchical, with workers answering to a manager, and that manager answering to a still-higher manager, and so on. The value of such hierarchies is obvious-it vastly simplifies communication among the employees. New employees need only one connection, to their boss, to get started. That's much simpler than trying to have everyone talk to everyone.”
• “Because Wikipedia is a process, not a product, it replaces guarantees offered by institutions with probabilities supported by process: if enough people care enough about an article to read it, then enough people will care enough to improve it, and over time this will lead to a large enough body of good enough work to begin to take both availability and quality of articles for granted, and to integrate Wikipedia into daily use by millions.”

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