Situated software clay shirky

The term came into more common usage in 2002, largely credited to wikipedia. Here comes everybody, by clay shirky eric nehrlich. Several early posts on this blog were commentary on his articles covering topics such as process, situated software, and the semantic web. Situational applications has,000 hits, situated software has 21,400 hits. In this book, we provide detailed instructions to help you set up mysql and related software. In computing, a situational application is good enough software created for a narrow group of users with a unique set of needs. Wish i had have read this a few months ago, before i started building a small internal app for the comms team. Pg podcast episode 55 laurel schwulst on art, code, teaching, and the magic of the bespoke web pg podcast episode 55 laurel schwulst.

In shirky s prescient talk at tedglobal 2005 given in the era before facebook, if such a time can be imagined, he talks about how social media will allow for loose collaborative networks, where small contributors have big roles. Clay shirky s writings about the internet, including economics and culture, media and community, open source clay shirky s writings about the internet. Id even go so far as to say if youre developing social software of any kind, this. Clay shirkys writings about the internet, including economics and culture, media and community, open source. Situated software, by contrast, doesnt need to be personalizedit is personal from its inception. Amid the silly videos and spam are the roots of a new reading and writing culture, says clay shirky. I do think, however, that maybe the best way to apply wabisabi to software is more in terms of the development process.

I post it here, because this model of programming as well as the results are so far away from what we are doing with standard software. Clay shirky and daniel pink have led eerily parallel lives. I have been a fan of clay shirky since i first found his work. The application typically but not always has a short life span, and is often created within the group where it is used, sometimes by the users themselves. Harrison payneclay shirky argues that the history ofthe modern world could be renderedas the history of ways of arguing, wherechanges in media change what sort ofarguments are possible with deepsocial and political implications. This first order benefits of this strategy were simple. Social software lets people rendezvous, connect or collaborate by use of a computer network. Situational application wikipedia republished wiki 2. Its ease of installation and use led media analyst clay shirky to credit mysql with driving a whole new type of information system he calls situated software custom software that can be easily designed and built for niche applications.

Situated software is the kind of applications people need to collect, share, keep track and report on a variety of data. Recently, i invited evgeny morozov and clay shirky, both frequent edge. Clay shirky has just written a fascinating article on situated software, talking about how kids today, when asked to write a program, are approaching it in an entirely different way than those. Clay shirky studies social networks, connections and subcultures that are using emerging technologies to connect.

In shirky s words, situated software is designed in and for a particular social situation or. You didnt even know it even existed unless you were on the itp mailing list. He is an adjunct professor in nyus graduate interactive telecommunications program itp, where he teaches courses on the interrelated effects of social and. Articles by clay shirky cnn, medium, the new york times. But they are not long projects that warrant the formal involvement of your it department, formal methodology and endless meetings. Here comes everybody is a revelatory examination of how the wildfirelike spread of new forms of social interaction enabled by technology is changing the way humans form groups and exist within them. Clay shirky in his essay entitled situated software described a type of software that. How technology makes consumers into collaborators kindle edition by shirky, clay.

Clay shirky, who coined the phrase social software in 2002, divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing on the social and economic effects of internet technologies. Clay shirky who organized a social software summit in november of that year. Clay shirky, who coined the phrase social software in 2002. Digital media have made creating and disseminating text, sound, and images cheap, easy and global. Clay shirky born 1964 is an american writer, consultant and teacher on the social and. The opensource world has learned to deal with a flood of new, oftentimes divergent, ideas using hosting services like github so why cant governments. Situated software a type of singleuse, opportunistic, software created to fulfill a very specific purpose for a relatively small group of users.

You could only rate clay and marianne and tom and the other itp professors. The core of the app is a camera view with the nowfamiliar tappress for photovideo affordance. Situated software, a term made popular by clay shirky, is a form of opportunistic software that a small subset of users create to fulfill a specific purpose. Shirky required that whatever project proposed by students had to be used by other students. I stumbled on this piece from clay shirky on situated software. Shirky has defined social software as software that supports group interaction. Luckily, clay shirky already came up with a name for them situated software. A the use of the ushahidi social networking platform to monitor crisis and organize rescue operations in the wake of the catastrophic earthquake that hit haiti in 2010. In the us today, if you are under 35 or make over 35,000 dollars a year, you are probably online, and if both of those things are true, then most of the people you know are probably online as well.

Shirky stated the talk was about using social software to improve citizen engagement in coastal towns. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading cognitive surplus. Shirky last year, clay shirky taught a class called social software in which the students worked in small groups to design and launch software to support some form of group interaction. The ideas behind how open source patterns are being applied to areas outside the realms of software, as clay shirky discusses, that my initial optimism about simple application of open source methods to other endeavors turned out to be wildly overoptimistic p. Clay shirky service, the telegraph, and the telephone did before. App inventor and the culture wars by mike loukides 2010. In this rousing talk clay shirky shows how democracies can take a lesson from the internet, to be not just transparent but also to draw on the knowledge of all their citizens. Software development dictionary of digital humanities. I wouldnt limit wabisabi to only the software development phase. So imagine my bewilderment as i listened to clay shirky argue, in his speech gin, television, and cognitive surplus, that gilligans island and web 2. In 2004, clay shirky wrote an essay about how he kept seeing people working on situated software projects rather than large scaleable projects, and the space took on a nice name.

Part of the future i believe im seeing is a change in the software ecosystem which, for the moment, im calling situated software. Well imagine how the neurons started firing while i read this introduction to the notion of situated software from clay shirky, where he argues. Situated software isnt a technological strategy so much as an attitude about closeness of fit between software and its group of users, and a refusal to embrace scale, generality or completeness as unqualified virtues. His consulting practice is focused on the rise of decentralized technologies such as peertopeer, web services, and wireless networks that provide alternatives to the wired clientserver infrastructure that characterizes the web.

Jornais e pensando o impensavel situated software, 304 watching my students build software formfit to particular social. Personally, i find this as an intriguing statement because at that. The power of organizing without organizations kindle edition by shirky, clay. Imvus testing seems to be in good accord with the needs and priorities of their young users. It is very applicable also to the software consumption phase. Its clay shirkys internet, we just live in it coding horror. Seen in this light, the obsession with personalization of web school software is an apology for the obvious. Clay shirkys got a new essay up on situated software, a term hes using to describe software, designed in and for a particular social situation. I am not sure who coined the term situational applications. I was planning to use my keys left for something different today, but found myself in an associative storm of tweets, possible conference sessions to be proposed and some situated software ive been working on for a few years, intermittently marc evers pointed me at clay shirky s situated software around the time it came out in 2004. This seems to be a well understood term in the industry. This makes me think about an old blog post by clay shirky. Situated software, by contrast, doesnt need to be personalized it is personal from its inception.

Both grew up in midwest university towns in the 1970s, where they spent their formative years watching television after school and at night. B the use of lolcats to bring joy and levity to the interwebz. It results in the creation of shared, interactive spaces. Situated software isnt a technological strategy so much as an attitude about closeness of fit between software and its group of users, and a refusal to embrace scale, generality or. I cant remember when, exactly, i discovered clay shirky, but i. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. The future of software development meets the long tail james. One complaint about the idea of new media as a political force is that most people sim ply use these tools for commerce, social life, or selfdistraction, but this is common to all forms of media. The democratization of the tools of software production. As a faculty member of the itp program at nyu, he writes incisively.

Find clay shirky s email address, contact information, linkedin, twitter, other social media and more. Clay shirky thinks so, based on his work at nyus interactive telecommunications program itp, where he found that students were ignoring the idea of writing big, scaleable, software for the world the web school they were developing small, very specific programs situated software, as clay calls it. According to clay shirky, which of the following examples illustrates civic value at work. A revolution in social organization has commenced, and clay shirky is its brilliant chronicler. Shirky divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing on the social and economic effects of internet technologies. About clay shirky ss latest experiences with software projects done in his nyu class. Situated software, a term made popular by clay shirky, is a form of opportunistic software that a. Situated software first published march 30, 2004 on the networks, economics, and culture mailing list. In a 2004 essay called situated software, clay shirky wrote. As the requirements of a small team using the application change, the situational application often also.

Clay shirky s work focuses on the rising usefulness of networks using decentralized technologies such as peertopeer sharing, wireless, software for social creation, and opensource development. This is software designed in and for a particular social situation or. The software imvu produces is similar in some respects to what clay shirky calls situated software. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading here comes.