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What people are saying - Write a reviewUser Review - Flag as inappropriate This brainy book, with its fascinating historical and scientific references, illuminates a central aspect of 21st century life – what people are doing on the Internet actively and jointly with the thinking time they used to spend watching TV passively and alone – and enables readers to see this slice of human experience in a new way. New York University professor Clay Shirky intelligently and insightfully explains how putting the Internet and its online social media tools into the hands of nearly two billion people who have more than a trillion hours of free time is resulting in a new, optimistic and empowered world. He cites such unique, useful Web developments as Wikipedia, PickupPal, the Apache Project and countless other online wonders. If you don’t yet fully understand the potential of social media, you will when you read this book. getAbstract recommends this outstanding work to anyone who wants to know more about how and why the Internet and social media are dramatically changing the world. Review: Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into CollaboratorsUser Review - Ron Christiansen - GoodreadsShirky opens up an intellectual space for his book with several crucial, almost obvious, yet often overlooked claims: 1. the current generation of young people are the first generation watching *less ... Read full review Related books
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Common terms and phrasesaccessed January action activity aggregate amateur Apache behave behavior blog called carpooling civic value cognitive surplus collaborative circles Commons-Based Peer Production consume consumption conversation coordination cost CouchSurfing create crowding-out culture DBSK Deci Deci’s dollars donations economics effect experiment experimentation extrinsic Facebook fan fiction fundamental attribution error global Groban Grobanites for Charity Gutenberg human idea increase individual interactions intrinsic motivations Invisible College January 9 Josh Groban kind Korean lolcats Meetup.com milkshake million mobile phones Napster norms offered open source opportunities organization participants patients PatientsLikeMe people’s PickupPal population printing press problem professional protests Responsible Citizens reward Ryerson Sene sharecropping sharing social media social networks social production society Soma someone spread study groups television there’s things Ultimatum Game users Ushahidi versus watching TV what’s Wikipedia women YouTube Z-Boys Bibliographic information
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