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Clay Shirky

Clay Shirky writes, teaches and consults on the social and economic effects of the internet. He is a professor at NYU's interactive telecommunications programme, and is the author of Here Comes Everyone: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

October 2013

  • Obama healthcare remarks

    Responsibility for Healthcare.gov's IT problems lie with dot gov

    Clay Shirky

    Clay Shirky: This was a management not a technology failure. Obama's error was not to empower technologists to tell him the truth

June 2013

  • David Simon

    How very wrong David Simon is about the NSA's capabilities

    Clay Shirky
  • Edward Snowden supporters attend a rally at Union Square in New York

    Edward Snowden and the security state laid bare

    Clay Shirky

December 2012

  • Clay Shirky: ‘We lecture other people every day about learning from history. Now it’s our turn’

    Higher education: our MP3 is the mooc

    Clay Shirky

    Academics have watched the internet change the music industry, books and news. And yet, now it's happening in higher education, we are about to screw it up, says Clay Shirky

January 2012

  • woman surfing the net

    liberty central
    Sopa and Pipa would create a consumption-only internet

    Clay Shirky
  • Pedestrians walk past the New York Times headquarters in New York

    The New York Times public editor's very public utterance

    Clay Shirky

February 2011

  • Wikileaks founder Julian Assange

    WikiLeaks has created a new media landscape

    Clay Shirky
    Clay Shirky: By avoiding national secrecy laws, WikiLeaks has begun a publishing trend that no regime can stop

January 2011

  • Wikipedia – an unplanned miracle

    Clay Shirky
    Clay Shirky: Every day since its birth 10 years ago, Wikipedia has got better. Yet it's amazing it even exists

May 2009

  • From 'why?' to 'why not?'

    The era when a small set of professionals controlled media creation is over. Anyone can now say anything to anyone. Make no mistake, says Clay Shirky - the web is the biggest media revolution since the printing press

April 2009

  • Stop press - and then what?

    Clay Shirky

    Clay Shirky: The traditional print media can't survive the impact of the internet. But society doesn't need newspapers, it needs journalism

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