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Clay Shirky: How social media can make history
By: Masha Medvedkov
Posted: Sep 22 09
Witnessed: 1292 times
Regions: Global
Issues: Freedom of opinion & expression
Tags: censorship, democracy, Media
While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.
Shirky, a prescient voice on the Internet’s effects, argues that emerging technologies enabling loose collaboration will change the way our society works.
Original Source: TED
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