1. Author Introduction
The authorof this article, Clay Shirky, is an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. His courses address the interrelated effects of the topology of social networks and technological networks, how our networks shape culture and vice-versa. He has written and been interviewed extensively about the Internet s
Devoted himself to academic work
As Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford
Write a great cycle of the myths &legends of Middle-Earth which was to become The Silmarillion.
The term used by author J.R.R. Tolkien to describe the lands of men
The Anglo-Saxon term is middangeard.
The word is also used in the Anglo-Saxon work Beowulf.
The Hobbit was published in 1937
The Lord of
Introduction of Clay Shirky
An American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies
A social media theorist
Other writers
Steven Pinker
An experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, linguist authorof popular science writing
New technologies are the only things that would keep us smart
who covers
her face with a black cloth?” “No.” The man gave Omovo ten kobo and said: “She is
a spy. She helps our enemies. If you see her come and tell us at once, you hear?”
Omovo refused the money and went back upstairs…….
→Omovo doesn’t believe what the soldiers talked to him.
The author shows Omovo is pure boy who doesn’t know much about the reality of war.
Edith Maude Eaton (1865-1914)
Wrote under the pseudonym Sui Sin Far- asserted Chinese heritage
Mixed ethnicity- prejudice
Ambiguity regarding her cultural identity
Wanted to encourage mutual understanding and respect between the American and Asian community
Significance of the author
The first Asian American author to write about the life of Chinese immigrants in the US
Had