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Clay Shirky: How Social Media Can Make History

Social Media, Video — By Matthew Tommasi on November 20, 2009 at 10:03 am

Clay Shirky delivers a great thought provoking presentation at TED, on How social media can make history.

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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 is one of the handful of people with justifiable claim to the digerati moniker. He’s become a consistently prescient voice on networks, social software, and technology’s effects on society.” - WIRED