Here comes everybody : the power of organizing without organizations /

Shirky, Clay, 1964-

Here comes everybody : the power of organizing without organizations / Clay Shirky. - New York : Penguin Books, 2009. - 344 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [308]-319) and index.

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 and

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Information technology--Social aspects.
Computer networks--Social aspects.
Internet--Social aspects.
Online social networks.
Redes sociales en línea
Tecnologías de la información--Aspectos sociales
Internet--Aspectos sociales
Redes de información --Aspectos sociales

HM 851 / S558h 2009

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