I just finish reading Clay Shirky’s book Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens When People Come Together. The book is about the revolution caused by social media in our daily group dynamics. The changes in communication patterns, services provision, collaboration, etc. is already happening. Much of his work enlightens current matters in our worldwide Capoeira community too.
The first time I heard about Shirky was through Leite Quente, a great friend from Capoeira Manginga Aotearoa, in 2008. By then, Leite and I were discussing a lot about the role of groups in Capoeira, among a whole lot of other related issues. Discussing ‘institution versus collaboration’, Shirky brings up a diversity of isses that can be instructive to lives in Capoeira.
I’ll post on his book soon. Meanwhile I would like you to have a look at the same talk Leite Quente passed on to me 2 years ago. This way, you’ll be more familiar with his concepts when I write about his book. Shirky’s insights can be very useful for those interested in alternative approaches to group organisation. Enjoy it!
Thanks for the lead Leite! I couldn’t have found the book without it.
Axé to all of you!
Eurico
For anyone interested in more of these kind of talks, I highly recommend http://www.ted.com heaps of interesting, inspiring talks for free. Such as Clay Shirky’s more recent:
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/clay_shirky_how_cognitive_surplus_will_change_the_world.html
Hey Leite,
Great talk! His book is also very good. You’ll like it.
Thanks for ‘introducing’ me to these issues.
Abraço!
Eurico