Ideas change everything

Como as redes sociais podem fazer história

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Clay Shirky |

TED@State

• June 2009

Enquanto que as notícias do Irão correm mundo, Clay Shirky mostra como o Facebook, o Twitter e os SMSs ajudam cidadãos de regimes opressivos a relatarem notícias reais, passando pela censura (ainda que brevemente). O fim do controlo "de cima para baixo" está a mudar a natureza da política.

Enquanto que as notícias do Irão correm mundo, Clay Shirky mostra como o Facebook, o Twitter e os SMSs ajudam cidadãos de regimes opressivos a relatarem notícias reais, passando pela censura (ainda que brevemente). O fim do controlo "de cima para baixo" está a mudar a natureza da política.

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Clay Shirky argues that the history of the modern world could be rendered as the history of ways of arguing, where changes in media change what sort of arguments are possible -- with deep social and political implications.

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