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

Almost unknown to the rest of the globe, Xiaomi has become the world's third-largest mobile phone manufacturer. Its high-end phones are tailored to Chinese and emerging markets, where it outsells even Samsung. Since the 1990s China has been climbing up the ladder of quality, from doing knockoffs to designing its own high-end goods.Xiaomi its name literally means "e;little rice"e; is landing squarely in this shift in China's economy. But the remarkable rise of Xiaomi from startup to colossus is more than a business story, because mobile phones are special. The common desiderata of the global population, mobile phones offer the kind of freedom and connectedness that autocratic countries are terrified of. China's fortune and future clearly lie with "e;opening up"e; to the global market, requiring it to allow local entrepreneurs to experiment.Clay Shirky, one of the most influential and original thinkers on how technological innovation affects social change around the world, now turns his attention to the most populous country of them all. The case of Xiaomi exemplifies the balancing act that China has to perfect to navigate between cheap copies and innovation, between the demands of local and global markets, and between freedom and control.

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: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• 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