Little Rice (eBook)

Smartphones, Xiaomi, and the Chinese Dream

Clay Shirky (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
128 Seiten
Columbia Global Reports (Verlag)
978-0-9909763-3-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Can the worlds biggest economy actually innovate? Clay Shirky explores China at a crossroads.Smartphones have to be made someplace, and that place is China. In just five years, a company named Xiaomi (which means little rice in Mandarin) has grown into the most valuable startup ever, becoming the third largest vendorof smartphones, behind only Samsung and Apple. China is now both the worlds largest producer and consumer of a little device that brings the entire globe to its users fingertips. How has this changed the Chinese people? How did Xiaomi conquer the worlds biggest market? Can the rise of Xiaomi help realize the Chinese Dream, Chinas bid to link personal success with national greatness?Clay Shirky, one of the most influential and original thinkers on the internets effects on society, spends a year in Shanghai chronicling Chinas attempt to become a tech originatorand what it means for the future course of globalization.

Autor

Clay Shirky divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. He is the author of two recent books on the subject, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age (2010) and Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (2008). He holds a joint appointment at New York University, as an associate arts professor at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) and as an associate professor in the journalism department. He is also a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and he was the Edward R. Murrow Visiting Lecturer at Harvard's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy in 2010. A graduate of Yale, his writing appears frequently in The New York Times, Wired, The Wall Street Journal, and Harvard Business Review, and his TED Talks have been viewed by millions. He lives in New York City.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.10.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Maschinenbau
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Nachrichtentechnik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Schlagworte: Business Technology • Chinese cell phones • chinese innovation • chinese smartphones • chinese technology • disruptive cultural changes because of the internet • Globalization • Hong Kong • how the internet changes society • Innovation • Internet and Society • Manufacturing • Regulation • Shanghai • smartphones • state surveillance • Technology • tech originator • Xiaomi
• ISBN-10: 0-9909763-3-5 / 0990976335
• ISBN-13: 978-0-9909763-3-2 / 9780990976332