![]() ![]() Today, people throughout the world are using email, text messaging and cell phones to help upend entire governments, organize mass protests, raise millions of dollars for campaigns, and expose injustices. ![]() ![]() Thanks to technology and the array of communication tools it provides-from email and text messaging to YouTube and Flickr-people are now able to connect with one another and, with just a few key strokes, form new kinds of groups with a capacity for collective action and collaboration that was previously unimaginable. In Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, Shirky, a leading observer of technology and communications professor at New York University, argues that technology is not only changing culture, it is revolutionizing it. Clay Shirky clearly is a man who does not subscribe to the adage that the more things change, the more they stay the same. ![]()
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