ABSTRACT
Shirky argues that we are living at a time of the biggest increase in expressive human capacity. The economic and social impact presented by the digital revolution, he suggests, can be compared to that of Gutenberg’s printing press in the fifteenth century. Shirky argues that the internet roll-out has had an equally revolutionary impact, placing mass communication tools in the hands of audiences, democratising media production so that ordinary people can organise and communicate widescale social change.
