Here Comes Everybody (book)

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
AuthorClay Shirky
LanguageEnglish
GenreNon-fiction
PublisherPenguin Group
Publication date
February 28, 2008
Media typePrint (Hardback)
Pages327 pp
ISBN978-1-59420-153-0
OCLC168716646
303.48/33 22
LC ClassHM851 .S5465 2008

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations is a book by Clay Shirky published by Penguin Press in 2008 on the effect of the Internet on modern group dynamics and organization. The author considers examples such as Wikipedia, MySpace, and other social media in his analysis. According to Shirky, the book is about "what happens when people are given the tools to do things together, without needing traditional organizational structures".[1] The title of the work alludes to HCE, a recurring and central figure in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake and considers the impacts of self-organizing movements on culture, politics, and business.[2]

  1. ^ Clay Shirky's site Clay Shirky’s Writings About the Internet
  2. ^ "Author sees profit in empowering Web users". The Seattle Times.