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HEre comes shirky.(Here Comes Everybody)

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HEre comes shirky

In his best-selling book Here Comes Everybody Clay Shirky set out his thesis that we are at the dawn of a new age, seeing the formation of a different kind of society with a vast increase in human creativity.

He says: "The change of expressive capability comes about from the fusing of two old communication patterns."

One communication form has been broadcasting and print A- TV, radio and newspapers A- where messages are sent out from the centre. The second form is two-way communication, where people talk to each other on the phone. For the first time ever, according to Shirky, we now have a two-way ...

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