| Description |
327 pages ; 23 cm |
| 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 |
A handful of kite hobbyists scattered around the world find each other online and collaborate on the most radical improvement in kite design in decades. A few people find that a world-class online encyclopedia created entirely by volunteers and open for editing by anyone, is a wild, but not an impractical idea. Shirky's assessment of the impact of new technology on the nature and use of groups is marvelously broad minded, lucid, and penetrating; it integrates the views of a number of other thinkers across a broad range of disciplines with his own pioneering work to provide a holistic framework for understanding the opportunities and the threats to the existing order that these new, spontaneous networks of social interaction represent. Wikinomics, yes, but also wikigovernment, wikiculture, wikievery imaginable interest group, including the far from savory. A revolution in social organization has commenced, and Clay Shirky is its brilliant chronicler. This edition published by Penguin Group (Australia) |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Internet -- Social aspects.
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Interpersonal communication -- Technological innovations.
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Blogs -- Social aspects.
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Web 2.0 -- Social aspects.
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Social interaction -- Technological innovations.
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Interpersonal communication -- Technological innovations -- Social aspects.
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Electronic discussion groups.
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Information technology -- Social aspects.
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Computer networks -- Social aspects.
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Online social networks.
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| ISBN |
9780713999891 hardback |
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0713999896 hardback |
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9781846141379 paperback |
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