I take away fromt his video two things: 1. How there are two sterotypes of people (Civic and communal) and 2. Are all humans sterotyped into two categories or do we have the option of doing "our own thing?" According to Clay Shirky, people's products are either Communal, meaning that they are created by the people for the people, or Civic, created by the person for the whole people. He uses an example that a day care center starting fining the parents for being late on pick up. After the fines ended, the rates stayed the same; the parents were still picking up their kids late. When you think about it, you realize that we never know these things until a real study is done. This makes me wonder, personally, if I fall into the category that doesn't change after the fines are taken away. It actually makes me nervous in a way, because I would rather be looking from the outside in as Clay Shirky does, as in knowing whats going on with these people, rather than be on the inside where everyone is somewhat oblivious to their actions.
2. What are the speakers effective speaking techniques?
The speakers effective speaking techniques include connecting with the audience in real life situations such as the website and "Lol cats". This really allows the audience to connect with the topic and relate it to their life, for example if they liked LOL cats then they could realte to the way he was connect them to his topic. 3. What is his/her presentation style?
Clay Shirky's presentation style is summed up by visual and specific. He is very visual in this examples by showing powerpoints with websites and specific topics, and is specific on these powerpoints. I did not care for his visual effects because they had many facts that I had no previous knowledge on and therefore I was very confused. Also, he went way to fast and lost many of his viewers including me.
4. What matters from this video? How does it connect to your personally? To education? To the world?
This video has a few connections to the world. To the world it connects through the map that he showed; it shows different facts about what it is used for. The world also has many personal connections because he used his example of a day care center which happened to be in Israel. This is a world wide study that can really relate to any family-- from the US to Israel. He also connects to me personally when he says the importance of working together as a cognative surplus in which the world population volunteers to global progress. I like group projects more than indivudal projects, which is a smaller version of what he is talking about. I feel like if the community works as a whole then more progress can be acheived. That is what matters from this video; that the society needs to work as a whole in order for great progress to be acheived. We work better when we like the topic that we are working on (very important in an education perspective), and that is essential for creating a better world with better products.
Notes:
- less than 3 years-global deployment
- cognative surprlus: worl pop. to volunteer to global progress
- 1. free time/talents -over a trillion hours of free time a year
- 2. modern tools- large scale efforts
- no matter ow stupid- put forward to the public
- doing anything or doing nothing
- design for genorsoity: how much we do things because we like to do them
- we are all rational
- social constraints makes a community more generous
- communal (by participants for others) vs. civic (created by participents but enjoyed by society as a whole)
- civic value- change soceity
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