Clay Shirky stares into the camera in front of him as he reaches the core of his argument. “The social network is the human connection,” the associate professor of journalism at New York University and writer of all things internet says, turning to highlight an illustration on a digital blackboard of large and small clusters of connected users on social media. “The social network service allows for and encourages some kinds of connections and disallows or discourages other kinds of connections.” Below him in the frame, two sets of captions -- one in English, the other in Chinese -- appear.

July 11, 2016 ・ From Inside Higher Ed