NYU Professor Clay Shirky discusses social software and the future overlap of well-developed online campaigns and politics in the next decade.
Bio
Clay Shirky
In The Long Tail, Chris Anderson calls Clay Shirky "a prominent thinker on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies."
Shirky is an adjunct professor in New York University's graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program, where he teaches a course named Social Weather. He's the author of Here Comes Everybody, and Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age.
One thing Shirky didn't point out is how ideological orientation ultimately dictates Obama's management of the organizations on his campaign site - there is no way he could have shut down or manipulated the anti-FISA group to make them less vocal because that is against a core American value - the freedom of speech.