June 14, 2010
Clay Shirky on Cognitive Surplus
Jerry Brito
Former Senior Research Fellow
Clay Shirky
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To speak with a scholar or learn more on this topic, visit our contact page.Clay Shirky, adjunct professor at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, discusses his new book, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age. Shirky talks about social and economic effects of Internet technologies and interrelated effects of social and technological networks. In this podcast he discusses social production, open source software, Wikipedia, defaults, Facebook, and more.
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