Here Comes Everybody
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| Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations | |
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| Author | Clay Shirky |
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| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Penguin Group |
| Publication date | February 28, 2008 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 327 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 978-1-59420-153-0 |
Here Comes Everybody or Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations is an adult non-fiction 327 page hardcover book written by Clay Shirky published by Penguin Group on February 28, 2008. (ISBN 978-1594201530) "Evaluates the significant role being played by technological advances on the formation and experience of modern group dynamics, citing such examples as Wikipedia and MySpace to demonstrate the Internet's power in bridging geographical and cultural gaps. 40,000 first printing."[1]
"Amazon.com editorial descriptions of this work: A revelatory examination of how the wildfirelike spread of new forms of social interaction enabled by technology is changing the way humans form groups and exist within them, with profound long-term economic and social effects-for good and for ill."[1]
Clay Shirky says the book is about "what happens when people are given the tools to do things together, without needing traditional organizational structures" and that he is launching a Here Comes Everybody blog "designed to both chronicle and extend the themes of the book."[2]
The Bookseller declared the book one of the two "most reviewed" books over the Easter weekend noting that Dibbell "concluded that 'Here Comes Everything is as crisply argued and as enlightening a book about the internet as has been written'" and Stuart Jeffries "found Shirky's book 'terrifically clever' and 'harrowing'".[3]
[edit] See also
- Adhocracies, temporary organizations.
[edit] Sources and notes
- ^ a b ISBN Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
- ^ Clay Shirky's site Clay Shirky’s Writings About the Internet
- ^ The Bookseller article Most reviewed: Here Comes Everybody and We-think published March 25, 2008
[edit] Further reading
- New York Times book review of Here Comes Everybody titled We Want It, and Waiting Is No Option published March 31, 2008
- Ars Technica book review of Here Comes Everybody titled The power of boring technology published April 03, 2008
