Clay Shirky: How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history
“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. (Recorded at TED@State, at the US State Department, June 2009, in Washington, DC. Duration: 17:03)”
Get additional, timely, insight on this topic from the NYU professor as he elaborates through a TED Q&A… Q&A with Clay Shirky on Twitter and Iran.
[via TEDBlog]
This may be the most interesting 17 minutes on the web; great insight into the social networking process and its significance. Well worth watching. Thanks for putting it up JB.