TED Talks Clay Shirky: How Twitter can make history
“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
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