Clay Shirky studies the social impacts of changes in information and communication technologies.
… we forgot about ontology and discussed, instead, the implications of personalized technology on politics, culture and society. Shirky, who teaches at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, believes that the democratization of the media is the first stage in a broader realignment of relations between elites and users. The best is yet to come, the digital visionary promised us.
David Ing blogs at coevolving.com , photoblogs at daviding.com , and microblogs at http://ingbrief.wordpress.com . A profile appears at LinkedIn , and an independent description is on Wikipedia .
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