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How social media can make history - Clay Shirky

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While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter, and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.

Talk by Clay Shirky.

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Related topics : social history of the media / social media news

How to choose your news - Damon Brown

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With the advent of the Internet and social media, news is distributed at an incredible rate by an unprecedented number of different media outlets. How do we choose which news to consume? Damon Brown gives the inside scoop on how the opinions and facts (and sometimes non-facts) make their way into the news and how the smart reader can tell them apart.

Lesson by Damon Brown, animation by Augenblick Studios.

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Related topics : social media news