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.