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Crossing Gaps » Clay Shirky http://crossinggaps.com A Digital Storytelling Firm Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:19:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 Clay Shirky: How cellphones, Twitter, Fa… http://crossinggaps.com/updates/clay-shirky-how-cellphones-twitter-fa/ http://crossinggaps.com/updates/clay-shirky-how-cellphones-twitter-fa/#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:05:50 +0000 Quang Tran http://crossinggaps.com/updates/clay-shirky-how-cellphones-twitter-fa/ 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.

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Clay Shirky says that the dissemination of news events via social media has heightened the role of emotion. The instantaneous manner with which users of platforms such as Facebook and Twitter are inclined to pick up, modify, and share messages favors excitement over objectivity.

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- Clay Shirky (@cshirky)

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