Here Comes Everybody

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name = Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
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author = Clay Shirky
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language = English
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genre = Non-fiction
publisher = Penguin Group
release_date = February 28, 2008
media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 327 pp
isbn = ISBN 978-1-59420-153-0
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"Here Comes Everybody" or "Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations" is an adult non-fiction 327 page hardcover book written by Clay Shirky published by Penguin Group on February 28, 2008. (ISBN 978-1594201530) "Evaluates the significant role being played by technological advances on the formation and experience of modern group dynamics, citing such examples as Wikipedia and MySpace to demonstrate the Internet's power in bridging geographical and cultural gaps. 40,000 first printing." [http://isbn.nu/9781594201530/price/20 ISBN] "Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations"]

"Amazon.com editorial descriptions of this work: A revelatory examination of how the wildfirelike spread of new forms of social interaction enabled by technology is changing the way humans form groups and exist within them, with profound long-term economic and social effects-for good and for ill."

Clay Shirky says the book is about "what happens when people are given the tools to do things together, without needing traditional organizational structures" and that he is launching a [http://www.herecomeseverybody.org/ Here Comes Everybody blog] "designed to both chronicle and extend the themes of the book." [ [http://www.shirky.com/herecomeseverybody/ Clay Shirky's site] Clay Shirky’s Writings About the Internet]

The Bookseller declared the book one of the two "most reviewed" books over the Easter weekend noting that the Telegraph's reviewer Dibbell found it 'as crisply argued and as enlightening a book about the internet as has been written' and the Guardian reviewer Stuart Jeffries called it 'terrifically clever' and 'harrowing'. [ [http://www.thebookseller.com/news/55414-most-reviewed-here-comes-everybody-and-we-think.html The Bookseller] article "Most reviewed: Here Comes Everybody and We-think" published March 25, 2008]

The title of the work is taken from James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake". [ [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2004286876_btshirky17.html "Seattle Times" review] ]

ee also

*Adhocracies, temporary organizations.

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Further reading

* [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/31/business/media/31carr.html?ref=business New York Times] book review of "Here Comes Everybody" titled "We Want It, and Waiting Is No Option" published March 31, 2008
* [http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/book-review-2008-04-1.ars Ars Technica] book review of "Here Comes Everybody" titled "The power of boring technology" published April 03, 2008
* [http://herecomeseverybody.wetpaint.com Unofficial wiki dedicated to 'bug fixes' and commentary about the book]