Here Comes Everybody

By Ari | Jan 30, 08 08:56 PM

Why User-generated Content Mostly Isn't by Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody:

The internet is in a way the first thing that really deserves the label 'media'. It is a truly general-purpose mediating layer, one that can hold multiple types of content, created and distributed for a huge variety of reasons and in a huge variety of ways, ways that can't be fit into the old mode of "content", where one group creates and another merely consumes.

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