{"product_id":"9780141030623-here-comes-everybody","title":"Here Comes Everybody","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHow Change Happens when People Come Together. Forming groups is easier than it's ever been: unpaid volunteers build Wikipedia together in their spare time, and one man with a laptop can raise an army to help recover a stolen phone. This book explores how the unifying power of the internet is changing the character of human society. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eClay Shirky's international bestseller \u003ci\u003eHere Comes Everybody: How Change Happens When People Come Together \u003c\/i\u003eexplores how the unifying power of the internet is changing the character of human society.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Welcome to the new future of involvement. Forming groups is easier than it's ever been: unpaid volunteers build Wikipedia together in their spare time, mistreated customers can join forces to get their revenge on airlines and high street banks, and one man with a laptop can raise an army to help recover a stolen phone. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  The results of this new world of easy collaboration can be both good (young people defying an oppressive government with a guerrilla ice-cream eating protest) and bad (girls sharing advice for staying dangerously skinny) but it's here and, as Clay Shirky shows, it's affecting. well, everybody.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  For the first time, we have the tools to make group action truly a reality. And they're going to change our whole world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'As crisply argued and as enlightening a book about the internet as has been written' \u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'As usable as the technology he writes about' \u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Clay Shirky's masterpiece . glittering, brilliant insights that make me think, yes, of course, that's how it all works' \u003cbr\u003e  Cory Doctorow, co-editor of \u003ci\u003eBoing Boing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Anyone interested in the vitality and influence of groups of human beings - from knitting circles, to political movements, to multinational corporations - needs to read this book' \u003cbr\u003e  Steven Johnson, author of \u003ci\u003eEverything Bad is Good for You \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eEmergence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eClay Shirky \u003c\/b\u003ewrites, teaches, and consults on the social and economic effects of the internet. A professor at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, he has consulted for Nokia, Procter and Gamble, News Corp., the BBC, the US Navy, and Lego. Over the years, his writings have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eHarvard Business Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWired\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eIEEE Computer\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40877936771169,"sku":"9780141030623","price":12.43,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/36c66254d8dd8894142e89b9cee9672a.png?v=1687431342","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780141030623-here-comes-everybody","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}