NYU Professor Clay Shirky discusses social software, including the system used by the presidential campaign of Barack Obama.
He notes the way members of the community organized in response to Obama's support for the 2008 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act legislation.
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.