Thursday, May 3, 2012

Here Comes Everybody

 Part of Ch. 2 and beginning of Chapter 3 for "Here Comes Everybody" by Clay Shirky
Shirky:
In Chapter 2, Shirky proposes that professions are a minority defined by being part of a minority.
The use of social media as a source of journalism in ways can be better and enable more things than professionals but professionals have to focus on things that they have to offer.
Shirky is suggesting that features of journalism today may adapt to a direction for journalists who are from places that are less modernized places in the world instead of a monopoly orientation with the goals of competing with amateurs.
Shirky is skeptic with privatization in relation to rights in regards to natural tendencies of sharing, collaborating, and cooperating. Modernization has gotten in the way with regulations involved within management. He argues for an organization without a central authority making all the decisions in order to permit better communication within a modern society. He promotes anarchism with the idea that chaos could be mediated through decisions of a participatory culture in which individuals can chose what decisions to be involved in to form common sense, create a common culture to form plans and act on them without governance. 
Shirky believes that professions should have low barriers to enter into and that people should be allowed to freely join and freely leave. A network communication technology could provide this for individuals.

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