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Clay Shirky: come i social media fanno la storia

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Mentre le notizie fluiscono dall'Iran verso il mondo, Clay Shirky dimostra come Facebook, Twitter e cellulari stiano aiutando i cittadini di regimi oppressivi a pubblicare notizie vere, scavalcando i censori (anche se per poco). La fine del controllo dall'alto delle notizie sta trasformando la natura della politica.

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. Full bio »

Translated into Italian by Giuseppina Manfredi
Reviewed by Giacomo Boschi
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