In the Fall of 2010, Shirky was a visiting Morrow Lecturer at Harvard University's John F.
Shirky was the first Professor of New Media in the Media Studies department at Hunter College, where he developed the MFA in Integrated Media Arts program. Supreme Court's decision to strike down the Communications Decency Act in 1996. He appeared as an expert witness on cyberculture in Shea v. During this time, Shirky was vice-president of the New York chapter of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and wrote technology guides for Ziff Davis.
In the 1990s he founded the Hard Place Theater, a theatre company that produced non-fiction theater using only found materials such as government documents, transcripts and cultural records and also worked as a lighting designer for other theater and dance companies, including the Wooster Group, Elevator Repair Service and Dana Reitz. Photograph of Shirky taken by Creative Commons chairman and MIT Media Laboratory former director Joi Ito.Īfter graduating from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in fine art in 1986, he moved to New York. In The Long Tail, Chris Anderson calls Shirky "a prominent thinker on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies." Education and career He is a member of the Wikimedia Foundation's advisory board. His consulting practice is focused on the rise of decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer, web services, and wireless networks that provide alternatives to the wired client–server infrastructure that characterizes the World Wide Web.
Shirky divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. His columns and writings have appeared in Business 2.0, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review and Wired. He has written and been interviewed about the Internet since 1996. His courses address, among other things, the interrelated effects of the topology of social networks and technological networks, how our networks shape culture and vice versa. Carter Journalism Institute and Associate Arts Professor at the Tisch School of the Arts' Interactive Telecommunications Program. He also is an associate professor at the Arthur L. In 2017 he was appointed Vice Provost of Educational Technologies of New York University (NYU), after serving as Chief Information Officer at NYU Shanghai from 2014 to 2017. Clay Shirky (born 1964 ) is an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies and journalism.
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