The book Here Comes Everybody by Clary Shirky covers many interesting topics and stories that Shirky examines in order to relate it to, social media and even management in organizations. Shirky purpose in doing this is to show us how these situations impact information, and organizations. One of Shirky’s argument’s in relation to chapter one’s story with the lost phone is that social networking, but precisely the internet has changed society’s behavior in many ways. For instance, Shirky’s purpose in introducing us with this story was to depict the change in the media, and how if it wasn’t for the internet many of the situations and communication occurring between individual people or groups of people would of never existed. Moreover, these relations among these individuals create the forms of networks that exist today. The telephone story also showed that if it was for the webpage created and the public’s interest in the situation and viewpoints on the situation, Ivanna (the female who lost her phone) would of never of received her phone back. Furthermore, it shows that the individuals involved in these social media’s like it because it requires no managerial,and because its free and quick. However, one important viewpoint that Shirky makes is that “group action gives human society its particular character and anything that changes the way groups get things done will affect society as a whole”(23). I believe that this quote is very true, and can be proven in our everyday interaction with Facebook, and Blogs and how we receive breaking news at much faster pace than back than, when America media companies were not using the internet to distribute let’s say online articles. In comparison to this it has been proven that group effort through these networks, has not been something new to society. “We have always relied on group effort for survival; even before the invention of agriculture, hunting and gathering… labor”(15).
Totally agree with that even before the Internet, people rely on with each other. In manufacturing cars alone, they have the assembly line for the cars to speed up things. It’s always been a group effort. That’s why there’s a saying that “two heads are better than one.”
I agree with most of what you said here, but I have to disagree with your claim that Shirky’s purpose is to show that “if it wasn’t for the internet many of the situations and communication occurring between individual people or groups of people would of never existed.” I think Shirky actually goes out of his way to explain that, before the widespread use of the internet, communications/interactions DID occur – but in a very different manner, and with different consequences. Using the Sidekick story, Shirky explains that Evan still could’ve (and likely would’ve) attempted to get the phone back before the acceptance of the internet, but “he wouldn’t have been able to attract an audience, much less one in the millions” (13) and would not have experienced the same result. Also, in Chapter Three, Shirky mentions the role of a scribe in the 1400s. He describes that the scribe was in a very rare and coveted position of power because he, alone, was responsible for creating and sharing information with many others. The invention of the printing press took away the prestige of scribes as it allowed many more people to be able to share information with others.
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