Loading comments… Trouble loading? Furthermore, it allows researchers to collaborate with patients. There has been criticism on the internet, naturally that Shirky has been in too much of a hurry to follow up his previous book, Here Comes Everybody , which was about how the internet has enabled people to self-organise more rapidly. The flames were fed by excess gas that couldn't then be harnessed; burning it was the only thing to do with it. With the tools of today, we see many new groups; most of them large, public, and amateur groups. 
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These forms of human collaboration that he argues the Internet provides surpljs the form of four categories of varying degrees of value: Clay Shirky's suggestion is that the past decades we have spent watching sitcoms, films and other "sit-there-and-consume-it" mass media is the cognitive equivalent of those gas flares: Retrieved from " https: Since the Second World War, increases in GDPeducational attainment, and life span have forced industrialized world to grapple with something we'd surplks had to deal with on a national scale: This emphasizes Shirky's point that group collaboration is essential to its prosperity and functionality.
The idea of crowdsourcing as a more egalitarian economic tool also draws criticism saying crowdsourcing cpay just cost-cutting, much akin to outsourcing. Show 25 25 50 All. For any good thing people do online, someone could also be doing something bad with the internet.
Point being that value is determined on who is involved and the intended benefactors of their efforts and level of cooperation that is upheld amongst the group, and that ultimately cognitive surplus is the driving factor behind such efforts.
Sharers have always had the same interests-or motivations- it is the opportunity that has changed them, and the ability to connect, share, and learn easily. But Americans spend about m hours watching TV adverts each weekend.
Overall response has been mixed with some critics praising Shirky's insights but also decrying some of the shortcomings of his theory. Personal value deals with the efforts of singular agents sharing ideas on a whim.
Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky
The flames were fed by excess gas that couldn't then be harnessed; burning it was the only thing to do with it. Threads collapsed expanded unthreaded.
Later Shirky emphasizes the sense of belonging that is an intricate part of this group culture. Shirky's text searches to prove that global transformation can come from individuals committing their time to active engagement with technology. Views Read Edit View history.
For the first time in history, the caly of television being watched by a younger generation is decreasing rather than increasing annually. Shirky introduces the Gin Craze as an older version of a modern-day concern.
Retrieved 23 February Cognitive Surplus is already aging badly, with the WikiLeaks furor showing just how little cclay traffic in raw information, no matter how revelatory or embarrassing, has upended the lumbering agendas of the old nation-state on the global chessboard of realpolitik—a place where everything has a price, often measured in human lives.
Because time is being poured instead into interactive media, and above all into online activities.
In the third chapter, Shirky explains that the means are platforms, tools, or systems we use that allow us to connect, learn, and share. In the seventh and final chapter, Shirky starts to work towards his conclusion of how his novel is a resource and how society may utilize it.
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Clay Shirky has long been interested in and published works concerning the Internet and its impact on society. Moreover, Shirky presents everything as civic change when some things such as carpooling services are really stretching the term.
Or there's Wikipedia, where anyone can edit pages; Shirky with help from an IBM expert calculates that creating Wikipedia's content has, sinceconsumed m cumulative hours of human thought. According to Matei, "A broader conclusion of the book is that converting 'cognitive surplus' into social capital and collective action is the product covnitive technologies fueled by the passion of affirming the individual need for autonomy and competence.
He references the happenings of the Post-World War II era and the resulting transformation that society endured. The key word here is "activities", for the defining feature of new media is shirkg.
He also shares with his readers that SixDegrees was the first social networking website, not Facebook and Friendster as everyone had previously thought. Another example he uses is The Invisible Collegean example of collaboration that resulted in a monumental scientific advancements because of the sense of a shared purpose.
Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky | Book review | Books | The Guardian
But now, he argues, we have the opportunity — via the low-friction medium of the internet — to organise ourselves and do something in concert. The use of this public access media is to reach audiences that are like the group.
Shirky discusses the publishing button and whether or not should exist since now anyone can publish. Shirky argues that since the s, people are learning how to use free time more constructively for creative acts rather than consumptive ones, particularly with the advent of online tools that allow new forms of collaboration.
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