Category: Politics and Power

• Clay Shirky – The Psychological Underpinnings of the Internet and its Implications for Society and Power

  

  Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, does an excellent job of describing the psychological underpinnings of the internet and its implications for organising and distribution of power. He begins by framing our understanding of the evolution of the internet.  From a point where the internet was seen as a…

  anirudhsuri

  September 16, 2013

  Internet and Society, MPPDigital, Politics and Power

  Beijing Foreign Studies University, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Clay Shirky, Goldman Sachs, Here Come Everybody, Joi Ito, McKinsey & Company, Media, Politics and Power, Robert Putnam, Small-world network