Clay really doesn’t need an introduction, does he? Even so, we’re really excited to have him. Clay has done more than any other public intellectual to explain the social and political effects of digital technology and to reveal its transformative possibilities. He is an influential author, teacher, and speaker, who has published Here Comes Everybody (2008) and Cognitive Surplus (2010). This year he is taking a hiatus from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program to be the Edward R. Murrow Lecturer at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
The Meta-Activism Project seeks to better understand the phenomenon of digital activism not in order to define its inherent nature, but in order to make meaningful interventions to increase its effectiveness. We are not technological determinists, we are activists. We seek to understand so we can be more effective agents of change.
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