How social media can make history - Clay Shirky
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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 report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.
Clay Shirky claims that we’re living through “the largest increase in expressive capability in human history.” Why does he say this, and do you think there’s any downside to this phenomena?
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