Clay Shirky

Clay Shirky holds a joint appointment at NYU, as Associate Arts Professor at the Interactive Telecommunications Program and Associate Professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He is the author, most recently, of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (2008) and Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
(2010).


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The Democratic Surround: A Conversation Between Fred Turner and Clay Shirky

Last December, Public Culture senior editor Fred Turner sat down with Clay Shirky, the author of Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age and Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, to talk about Turner’s new book, The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties. A prequel to the influential From Counterculture to Cyberculture which […]