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Clay Shirky How social media can make history

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Clay Shirky How social media can make history

Posted by myTwitC on 02/24/2011

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TED Talks 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.

TED, Talks, Culture, Global, Issues, Technology, communication, politics, social, change, media

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