Here comes everybody: the power of organizing without organizations

By:

Shirky, Clay

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: 2008 Penguin Books New YorkDescription: 327 p. 23 cm ; Hard BoundISBN:

978-0713999891

Subject(s):

Internet--Social aspects Online social networks Information technology--Social aspects Sociology

Contents:

It takes a village to find a phone -- Sharing anchors community -- Everyone is a media outlet -- Publish, then filter -- Personal motivation meets collaborative production -- Collective action and institutional challenges -- Faster and faster -- Solving social dilemmas -- Fitting our tools to a small world -- Failure for free -- Promise, tool, bargain -- Epilogue.

Summary: An examination of how the rapid spread of new forms of social interaction enabled by technology is changing the way humans form groups and exist within them, with profound long-term economic and social effects--for good and for ill. Our age's new technologies of social networking are evolving, and evolving us, into new groups doing new things in new ways, and old and new groups alike doing the old things better.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	H.T. Parekh Library	GSB Collection	302 SHI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		36540

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It takes a village to find a phone --
Sharing anchors community --
Everyone is a media outlet --
Publish, then filter --
Personal motivation meets collaborative production --
Collective action and institutional challenges --
Faster and faster --
Solving social dilemmas --
Fitting our tools to a small world --
Failure for free --
Promise, tool, bargain --
Epilogue.

An examination of how the rapid spread of new forms of social interaction enabled by technology is changing the way humans form groups and exist within them, with profound long-term economic and social effects--for good and for ill. Our age's new technologies of social networking are evolving, and evolving us, into new groups doing new things in new ways, and old and new groups alike doing the old things better.

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