TED-Ed

How social media can make history - Clay Shirky

TV-PG
2012 • E83    Nov 16, 2012    10m
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.

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