The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

The Internet, social networking and peer-to-peer (p2p) communication have transformed how people connect, as well as the scope, scale and speed of mass collaborations. This transformation has opened the door for self-emerging and increasingly complex virtual forums, allowing individuals to collaborate and organize from worlds apart.

Please join us for a discussion about what happens when people are given the tools to do things together, without needing traditional organizational structures. Shirky will discuss his new book, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, which explains how the Internet, social networking, p2p technologies are just beginning their revolutionary impact on cultural creation, social movements, business, and traditional hierarchical structures and organizations.

Clay Shirky was an expert on the Internet and emerging technology even before there was a World Wide Web. He has written extensively about the Internet since 1996, with regular columns in Business 2.0, FEED, OpenP2P.com and ACM Net Worker, as well as articles that have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review, Wired, and other leading outlets.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Technology
• Groups
• Organizations
• Peer
• P2P
• Networks
• Decentralization
• Mesh

[DerSchnurrbart]

Excellent video. I wish I could hear the audience questions better. Even with maximum loudness their voices were muffled.

[sicmay]

How interesting he mentions the Egyptian pro democracy group 2 years ago using twitter. Approx 2 years before revolutions.

[mzjwright]

NOW THAT COMMENT IS SO FUNNY!!!!! I think this video could be very educational! Im hoping at least, I'mma bout to devout over an hour to watching..A social Movement is needed, shit has hit the fan, if you didn't see it on the T.V its OK because THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED! Malcolm X and Martin Luther etc are not coming back! WE ARE THE LEADERS WE ARE WAITING FOR! Find a cause and get involved! PEACE**

[briano1983]

lol..um someone fix the projector and get it out of that guys eyes..plus his head is blocking the screen..haha soo funny.

[burtflaxton]

Just starting this, can't wait for some Shirky hand puppets!!!

Hope he does the butterfly!!!

[notashot]

Just a foot note. The new york air plane thing was repealed. Legislatively it was constitutionally unsound. It was a federal issue not a state one.