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Crossing Gaps » facebook 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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Twitter, Friendfeed, Facebook and the host of real-time-web feed services … are quintessentially distraction-based media; shallow on context and truncated into staccato bursts of conversation. These media play off of a very real psychological factor known as operant conditioning, the addictive need to return over and over in hopes of a reward… The dominant revenue model of the web today - the ad that urges a click - embeds distraction into interface design. The more clicks you take – the more Google makes in ad revenue (distraction pays).

- Joshua-Michéle: The Real Time Web is a Beautiful Distraction

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