John P. McGovern Award Lecturer: Clay Shirky
Sponsored by EBSCO
“Technology/Media: The Future, Innovation, Business Strategy, Marketing and Sales, Ethics, and Culture”
Clay Shirky is a provocative new voice on all things Internet: economics and culture, media and community, and the open source movement. He divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. His consulting practice is focused on the way network technologies provide new ways for groups to get things done, including collaboration tools, social networks, peer-to-peer sharing, collaborative filtering, and open source development.