Clay Shirky
Writer on the internet's social effects; author of Here Comes Everybody; NYU vice provost.
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- Clay Shirky is an American writer and teacher on the social and economic effects of internet technologies.
- He has written about the internet since 1996.
- His books argue that cheap social tools let groups form and act without formal organisations.
- He is a vice provost at New York University.
Key facts
- Born
- 19641
- Education
- Yale University, BA in fine art, 19861
- Theatre
- Founded the Hard Place Theater in New York in the 1990s, which staged non-fiction work from found documents1
- NYU Shanghai
- Chief Information Officer from 2014 to 20171
- New York University
- Appointed Vice Provost for AI and Technology in Education in 2017 (title as Wikipedia gives it); teaches at the Carter Journalism Institute and Tisch's Interactive Telecommunications Program1
- Books
- Here Comes Everybody (2008); Cognitive Surplus (2010); Little Rice: Smartphones, Xiaomi, and the Chinese Dream (2015)1
- Wikimedia
- Was a member of the Wikimedia Foundation's advisory board1
- Hunter College
- First Professor of New Media in its Media Studies department1
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