What is Clay Shirky?
'''Clay Shirky''' (born 1964) is an [[Americans|American]] writer and [[consultant]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Clay Shirky|url=https://tisch.nyu.edu/itp/itp-people/faculty/adjuncts/clay-shirky|access-date=2021-08-31|website=tisch.nyu.edu|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Clay Shirky {{!}} The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/clay-shirky|access-date=2021-08-31|website=the Guardian|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Clay Shirky {{!}} Penguin Random House|url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/230639/clay-shirky|access-date=2021-08-31|website=PenguinRandomhouse.com|language=en-US}}</ref> {{Infobox person | name = Clay Shirky | image = Etech05 Clay2.jpg | caption = Shirky on the Folksonomy panel at the 2005 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego, California. | other_names = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1964}} | birth_place = [[Columbia, Missouri]], U.S. | occupation = Writer, consultant, lecturer<ref>{{cite web |url=http://about.tisch.nyu.edu/object/ShirkyC.html |title=Shirky: Tisch School of the Arts at NYU |publisher=About.tisch.nyu.edu |access-date=2011-06-03 |archive-date=2015-04-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402132444/http://about.tisch.nyu.edu/object/ShirkyC.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> | known_for = }} Shirky was the first Professor of New Media at Hunter College. He earned a Bachelors of Arts degree from [[Yale University]] in 1986. == Writing == * ''The Internet by E-Mail'' (1994) – {{ISBN|1-56276-240-0}} * ''Voices from the Net'' (1995) – {{ISBN|1-56276-303-2}} * ''P2P Networking Overview'' (2001) – {{ISBN|0-596-00185-1}} * {{cite web|author=Shirky, Clay|year=2003|title=Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality|url=http://shirky.com/writings/powerlaw_weblog.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060208093032/http://www.shirky.com/writings/powerlaw_weblog.html|archive-date=2006-02-08|access-date=2006-02-16|work=Writings About the Inter