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Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators

by Clay Shirky

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How digital tools turn shared time and effort into public collaboration

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How digital tools turn shared time and effort into public collaboration

Clay Shirky examines the social possibilities created when digital media let large numbers of people contribute knowledge, labor, and attention at minimal cost. Using collaborative projects such as Wikipedia and Ushahidi.com as reference points, the book considers how online participation can move beyond individual consumption toward collective creation and public problem-solving. Its central subject is the “cognitive surplus” of shared human time and intellect, and the ways networked tools can organize that resource around projects intended to serve a broader good.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in the social impact of the internet and digital media
  • People curious about online collaboration, crowdsourcing, and participatory projects
  • Readers of technology and society nonfiction

Themes

Digital collaborationParticipatory cultureCollective knowledgeOnline civic actionTechnology and social change

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Book overview

The author of the breakout hit Here Comes Everybody reveals how new technology is changing us for the better.

In his bestselling Here Comes Everybody, Internet guru Clay Shirky provided readers with a much-needed primer for the digital age. Now, with Cognitive Surplus, he reveals how new digital technology is unleashing a torrent of creative production that will transform our world. For the first time, people are embracing new media that allow them to pool their efforts at vanishingly low cost. The results of this aggregated effort range from mind-expanding reference tools like Wikipedia to life-saving Web sites like Ushahidi.com, which allows Kenyans to report acts of violence in real time. Cognitive Surplus explores what's possible when people unite to use their intellect, energy, and time for the greater good.
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