As you look for two book reviews about Clay Shirky’s book, it is essential that the book reviews meet the following criteria:

• one review is from a magazine or newspaper
• the other review is from a peer-reviewed scholarly journal
• each review is more than a single paragraph long (if it is too short of a review, it is unlikely to have anything in it that you can respond to in the essay that you will be writing)
• each review must contain some criticism of Shirky or the book itself (if the book is just an overview of the ideas in the book, then it’s useless for this assignment)

The point of this assignment is not for you to summarize book reviews or to show me that you can find book reviews. Instead, the point is to find some criticisms that people have made of Shirky and his book and, in our own words, respond to those criticisms. Book reviews are a likely source for finding these kinds of criticisms of Shirky.