September 11, 2009
What were you doing during September 11, 2001? I was in Hawaii, attending college. My roommates woke up me at 4:30am with loud TV news sound. I came out and saw a headline on Fox News that said “America Under Attack”! I could not believe that was happening live. Who would have thought of that [...]
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July 3, 2009
TED Talk by Slay Shiky How Social Media 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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