Clay Shirky thinks about the Internet. He has been doing this in one form or another for many years.
He is currently a Partner for Technology and Product Strategy at the acceleratorgroup, and on leave as Professor of New Media at Hunter College, where he teaches in both the undergraduate and graduate programs.
In addition to teaching, Professor Shirky’s writings are currently focussed on:
- The Internet’s effect in shifting power from producer to consumer in the media landscape.
- The Internet economy, and especially its effect on national culture.
- Open Source Software and the post-PC network ecology.
He has worked as a writer, programmer, and consultant, writing for Business 2.0, FEED, Silicon Alley Reporter, word.com, Urban Desires, and net_worker magazine, and working as an online media and measurement consultant with Barnes and Noble, iVillage, Ziff-Davis University, Eisnor Interactive and others, where he practices “Web Archeology”, a way of measuring a company’s business assumptions against the actual behavior of its online users.
