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TEDTalks: How Cellphones, Twitter, Facebook Can Make History

CLAY SHIRKY: HOW CELLPHONES, TWITTER, FACEBOOK CAN MAKE HISTORY
TEDTalks
June 16, 2009

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.

posted @ Tuesday, June 23, 2009 12:52 AM by David

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