"The historic role of the consumer has been……" — Clay Shirky
"The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long conveyer belt, the all-absorbing Yin to the mass media's all-producing Yang....In the age of the internet, no one is a passive consumer anymore because everyone is a media outlet."
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78 Quotes by Clay Shirky
Clay Shirky has 78 quotes on this site.
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Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing…
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It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make…
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Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring... It's when a technology becomes normal, then ubiquitous, and…
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What I think is coming instead are much more organic ways of organizing information than our current categorization schemes allow,…
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Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting.
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It's not a revolution if nobody loses
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Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution
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Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.
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It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered…
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We use the word 'organization' to mean both the state of being organized and the groups that do the organizing.
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It did not take long after the rise of the commercial printing press before someone figured out that erotic novels…
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When you make the claim that something on the Internet is going to be good for democracy, you often [hear],…
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In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we…
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Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life.
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