Here Comes Everybody

'Here Comes Everybody' or Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations is an adult non-fiction 327 page hardcover book written by Clay Shirky published by Penguin Group on February 28, 2008. (ISBN 978-1594201530) "Evaluates the significant role being played by technological advances on the formation and experience of modern group dynamics, citing such examples as Wikipedia and MySpace to demonstrate the Internet's power in bridging geographical and cultural gaps. 40,000 first printing." ISBN Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

"Amazon.com editorial descriptions of this work: A revelatory examination of how the wildfirelike spread of new forms of social interaction enabled by technology is changing the way humans form groups and exist within them, with profound long-term economic and social effects-for good and for ill."

Clay Shirky says the book is about "what happens when people are given the tools to do things together, without needing traditional organizational structures" and that he is launching a Here Comes Everybody blog "designed to both chronicle and extend the themes of the book." Clay Shirky's site Clay Shirky’s Writings About the Internet

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Category: 2008 books Category: Cultural studies books Category: Technology books Category: Organizational studies and human resource management Category: Group processes Category: Community building Category: Internet Category: Global internet community Category: MySpace Category: Wikipedia Category: Online social networking Category: Virtual communities