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Clay Shirky, a Common card
Clay Shirky is an American pundit, writer, and consultant on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies and journalism.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 71
- DEF
- 56
- Power
- 127
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 13,000
Power 127 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Clay Shirky quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Clay Shirky card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He has written and been interviewed about the ______ since 1996.
Answer
Internet. He has written and been interviewed about the Internet since 1996. From the Clay Shirky article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Clay Shirky. Clay Shirky 71 · Disc parking 68 · John Scott Haldane 65 · Western screech owl 58 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- In 2017 he was appointed Vice Provost for AI and Technology in Education at New York University, after serving as Chief Information Officer at NYU Shanghai from 2014 to 2017.
- He also is an associate professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and Associate Arts Professor at the Tisch School of the Arts' Interactive Telecommunications Program.
- He has written and been interviewed about the Internet since 1996.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Clay Shirky article was read about 13,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 71 and blocks with 56: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
How to get Clay Shirky
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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The cards just above and just below Clay Shirky in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Western screech owlCommon · Nature · ATK 58 DEF 69
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- Carolina KlüftCommon · Society · ATK 71 DEF 56
- ConeCommon · Nature · ATK 66 DEF 61
- Dafydd WilliamsCommon · Science · ATK 68 DEF 59
- FootpathCommon · Science · ATK 66 DEF 61
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Clay Shirky (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : James Duncan Davidson from Portland, USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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