Clay Shirky

Clay Shirky is vice provost for AI and technology in education at New York University (NYU), an associate professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, and an associate arts professor in the Tisch School of the Arts’ Interactive Telecommunications Program. He has authored several important books on online groups and social networks and has written columns for publications including Business 2.0 and FEED. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Wired, Computerworld, and Foreign Affairs. Throughout his career, Shirky has focused on the social, political, and economic effects of Internet technologies while also mentoring others in his field.