Clay Shirky teaches social media at NYU's graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program, and is the author of the forthcoming book, "Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations," which examines the ways the internet is allowing for new kinds of collaborative action.

Blog Entries by Clay Shirky

Wikileaks and the Hard Problem of Changing Social Bargains

Posted March 5, 2008 | 03:45 PM (EST)


WikiLeaks.org, a website for anonymous individuals to report illegal or unethical behavior, was briefly and famously shut down by Judge Jeffrey White of San Francisco. Or rather, it was half-way shut down -- Judge White ordered that the WikiLeaks.org web address be de-activated, though the site itself remained intact. Judge...

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Clinton's Million Little Pieces Moment?

Posted February 25, 2008 | 06:22 PM (EST)


Senator Clinton's campaign has launched one of the oddest bits of political propaganda in the history of modern politics. Called DelegateHub.com, it is a web site that does nothing less than lay out, in glorious policy-wonk detail, their rationale for stealing the Democratic nomination.

DelegateHub is a mix of...

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