New media writer Clay Shirky took to Twitter Friday afternoon to dismiss white liberals’ response to Donald Trump as ineffective and self-indulgent – and to rally them to defeat Trump. “Believe this: ...

The theme of Shirky's talk revolved around a quote from Mark Smith, Research Sociologist at Microsoft, who said that the history of civilization could be summed up in seven words: "More people, ...

Clay Shirky is one of the most prominent and well-respected thinkers there is when it comes to the political impact of digital media. This summer, he gave a talk at the TEDGlobal conference in ...

Clay Shirky is a leading thinker about how the internet is changing the world. In his writing, especially the recent book, Here Comes Everybody, he detailed how the networked world allows people to ...

Clay Shirky is so concerned about the state of higher education that he can’t help but want to destroy it. In a recent blog post, he argues that we are in the midst of a new (or not so new) “reality.” ...

I try not to do too many of those “You’ve got to read this” posts. But you’ve got to read this. Clay Shirky: Print media does much of society’s heavy journalistic lifting, from flooding the zone — ...

Clay Shirky doesn’t like television. The Chronicle’s Jeff Young reports this week that the New York University scholar and Internet guru figures Americans spend 200 billion hours each year of their ...

“I would get home from the theater at 11 p.m. and stay on the Internet until 4,” he said. “I thought either I could call myself an addict and get myself to quit. Or I could try and make it my job.” In ...

Why does Clay Shirky believe the internet is better than television, asks Tess Alps Plus Clay Shirky on complex businesses' collapse, tributes to 'father of the PC', register to vote, and how to fix ...

Constructive criticism makes you smarter when you respond. ‘Corrosive’ criticism is only meant to stop you from acting, not improve your outcome. That was the heart of the keynote address from ...

Denver — Clay Shirky is one of the country’s most prominent Internet thinkers—“a spiritual guide to the wired set,” as On Wednesday, Mr. Shirky took that message to a group of ...

Writer and NYU professor Clay Shirky's prescient essays and books about online group formation and social software made him a guru to a generation of web entrepreneurs, particularly those within the ...