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Cognitive SurplusCreativity and Generosity in a Connected
Age
Clay Shirky
Andrea AlvidrezEnglish 488 – Multimedia Composition
October 20, 2010Professor Arroyo
Chapter 3 – Motive
• Grobanites for Charity• Deci’s Soma Experiment• Intrinsic Motivation• Amateurs• Feedback Loops
Chapter 4 – Opportunity
• Skateboards and Easels• Ultimatum Game• Social Production: People you Don’t
Know, Making your Life Better for Free
• Generation X, Y, Z• Collaborative Spirals
Chapter 5 – Culture
• Gneezy and Rustuchini and Day-Care Centers
• Coordinating Tool• Economics of Sharing• College Professors and Brain
Surgeons• Patients Like Us
Chapter 6 – Personal, Communal, Public, Civic
• Fundamentally Individual and Fundamentally Social
• Women and Men• Individuals, Groups, and Freedom• Groups and Governance
Chapter 7 – Looking for the Mouse
• Paradox of Revolution• Improving the Odds
– Starting– Growing– Adapting
• Three Ways to Manage a Revolution• Looking for the Mouse
Clay Shirky
Works Cited
Shirky, Clay. Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age. New York: Penguin, 2010. Print.
“Clay Shirky: How Cognitive Surplus Changed the World.” Online Posting. YouTube. 29 June 2010. Web. 19 October 2010.