Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age

By J. Hayden. 2011

Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology, Social Sciences & Humanities

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The MOOC model for digital practice (2010, background): “Our cultural concept of intellectual property comes from a world in which information and authorship were seen as creating new things, in an environment where copies involved labour and investment (Spender, 1995; Shirky, 2010).”
Self-Governance Through Group Discussion in Wikipedia (2011, background): “Wiki tools are widely available and general purpose systems that allow users to make small but valuable contributions that add up to something more than the sum of their parts (Anderson, 2008; Shirky, 2008, 2010).”
The Passions and the Interests: Unpacking the 'Sharing Economy' (2016, background): “In this optimistic vein one can also find the democratising effect of the ‘long tail’ (Anderson, 2006), the generosity stemming from ‘cognitive surplus’ (Shirky, 2010), the celebration of crowdsourcing as a model for problem solving (Brabham, 2013; Brabham, 2008; Gehl, 2011), the philosophical prais”
Crowdsourcing in the cultural heritage domain: opportunities and challenges (2011, background): “In his recent book Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age Clay Shirky observes how the Internet changes the way we spend our spare time [39].”
Student Satisfaction with Online Learning: Is It a Psychological Contract?. (2015, background): “Because contemporary students view information as a commodity which can be traded openly among a community of learners, collaboration becomes fundamental to a variety of educational outcomes (Shirky, 2010; Dziuban et al., 2013).”
The cultural work of microwork (2015, background): “Rather than managers of global data factories, microwork employers can imagine themselves as technologists and innovators engaged in non-hierarchical peer production (see Benkler, 2006; Shirky, 2010).”
Deconstructing disengagement: analyzing learner subpopulations in massive open online courses (2013, background): “plus” [24] that has emerged in a post-industrial age.”
Entity Disambiguation with Web Links (2015, background): “However, creating a KB as rich as Wikipedia represents an estimated 100 million hours of human effort (Shirky, 2010).”