Clay Shirky: How social media can make history

About this film

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.

Directors & creators

TED.com

Subjects

TEDTalks, TED@State, TED, Talks, communication, culture, global issues, politics, social change, social media, technology, 2009

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