TED Talks

Clay Shirky: How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history

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2009 • E110    Jun 16, 2009    17m
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.

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