Clay Shirky

Clay Shirky is the Visiting Murrow Lecturer on the Practice of Press and Public Policy at the Shorenstein Center. He is a writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. He teaches New Media as an associate teacher at New York University’s graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program. His courses address the interrelated effects of the topology of social networks and technological networks, how our networks shape culture and vice-versa. He has written and been interviewed extensively 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. He is the author of Cognitive Surplus and Here Comes Everybody. Shirky is teaching a course entitled New Media and Public Action.