The Shirky Doctrine

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Clay Shirky at TED: How Twitter Can Make History

"In a world where media is global, social, ubiquitous and cheap, in a world where the former audience are now increasingly full participants, in that world media is less and less often about crafting a single message to be consumed by individuals. It’s more and more often a way of creating an environment for convening and supporting groups."