Clay Shirky

Clay Shirky
Shirky on the Folksonomy panel at the 2005 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego, California
Born1964 (age 59–60)
Columbia, Missouri, U.S.
Occupation(s)Writer, consultant, lecturer[1]

Clay Shirky (born 1964[2]) is an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies and journalism.

In 2017 he was appointed Vice Provost of Educational Technologies of New York University (NYU), after serving as Chief Information Officer at NYU Shanghai from 2014 to 2017.[3] He also is an associate professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and Associate Arts Professor at the Tisch School of the Arts' Interactive Telecommunications Program.[4] His courses address, among other things, the interrelated effects of the topology of social networks and technological networks, how our networks shape culture and vice versa.[5]

He has written and been interviewed about the Internet since 1996. His columns and writings have appeared in Business 2.0, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review and Wired. Shirky divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. His consulting practice is focused on the rise of decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer, web services, and wireless networks that provide alternatives to the wired client–server infrastructure that characterizes the World Wide Web. He is a member of the Wikimedia Foundation's advisory board.[6] In The Long Tail, Chris Anderson calls Shirky "a prominent thinker on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies."[7]

  1. ^ "Shirky: Tisch School of the Arts at NYU". About.tisch.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2011-06-03.
  2. ^ "Clay Shirky – New York, NY". PeekYou. 2008-04-27. Retrieved 2011-06-03.
  3. ^ "Clay Shirky NYU Bio".
  4. ^ "New Media Expert Clay Shirky to Become Professor at NYU's Carter Journalism Institute, Tisch School of the Arts and Sciences". Nyu.edu. Retrieved 2011-06-03.
  5. ^ Clay Shirky. "Shirky: Bio". shirky.com. Archived from the original on 2 January 2011.
  6. ^ "Advisory Board". Wikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  7. ^ Anderson, Chris (2008). The Long Tail. Hyperion. ISBN 978-1-4013-0966-4.