After being asked to read a chapter of Shirky, Clay. Here Comes Everybody Power of Organizing Without Organizations (Hardcover, 2008). Penguin; my lecturer had set us some questions in relation to the text and below is my response/discussion.
In the book Here Comes Everybody Power of Organizing Without Organizations (Hardcover, 2008) written by Clay Shirky he says that a groups complexity will grow faster than its size. By saying this I think that Shirky is inferring that by adding more people into the equation it is going to lead to more connections, making the scenario a more complex one. For example, if we had a group of four people, each person would have 4 different connections totalling 16, a group of 5 people would have 25 different connections, therefore showing that complexity will grow faster as more people are added to the group, and therefore creating more connections.
Within the book he identifies the problem of coordinating large is that due to the large size of the group, the group tends to waste more time on actually trying to maintain and structure itself to keep itself going; which in turn puts the actual aims of the group on the backburner, due to self preservation becoming number one priority.
He uses the example of Flickr as an example of showing how coordination of large groups is changing in the modern world. He says that, Flickr has provided a platform for users to aggregate photos themselves with minimal complications. As long as the user is aware of how to work flickr through the use of ‘tags’ then it would allow for all similar pictures to be organised into the same location. You would simply tag a photo, for example after the London Transport Bombings, some photos taken by evacuees where the first ones published of the devastation; in which they would have tagged, ‘London’ ‘Transport’ ‘Bombings’ grouping all similar photos together, without the need for someone to manually organise it.
The photos taken by these evacuees beat many traditional news outlets at spreading the news of the bombings. Not only that the photos were used for other reasons such as: providing evidence, providing photos of official notices, notes published in schools, messages of support from the rest of the world; and not forgetting it allowed usage by bloggers to reuse and talk about the bombings – “creating a symbiotic relationship between various social tools”.
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