- society, Internet, web, media
"Every single year for the second half of the 20th century, the amount of television watched by humanity increased. Collectively, we now watch more than one trillion hours of television every year – something not entirely unlike, as Clay Shirky sees it, tipping the free time of the world's educated citizenry (their "cognitive surplus") down an intellectual plughole.
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Spare, classical in form, contemporary and cool.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Clay Shirky
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 242
- Publisher
- Penguin Press, Allen Lane, Tantor Audio
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780141922348
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An American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies.
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