Clay Shirky
Internet writer, consultant and academic
Clay Shirky is an American writer, consultant and New York University academic who studies how internet technologies affect society and journalism. He wrote Here Comes Everybody.
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American Born 1964 in Columbia, United States
About Clay Shirky
Clay Shirky, born in 1964, is an American writer and consultant who studies how the internet changes society, economics and journalism. He has written about the internet since 1996, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review and Wired. His book in our catalog is Here Comes Everybody. In 2017 he became Vice Provost for Artificial Intelligence and Technology in Education at New York University (NYU). Between 2014 and 2017 he had been the chief information officer of its Shanghai campus. He also teaches at the university's Interactive Telecommunications Program. Earlier in his career, he was chief technology officer at the web design firm Site Specific. Before that, he studied art at Yale College and worked as a theater director in New York.