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Clay Shirky talks about how social networks like Twitter, Facebook are changing the landscape of news production and reporting, and how this change in top-down control of news concurrently changes politcal dynamics.
About Timi Stoop-Alcala
I’m very passionate about content, because I’m passionate about people. Content is just another means to solve problems and elevate people to greater heights. This is what I want my website / blog, and social networks to do for people like you and me. I don’t have all the answers, but I would like to share everything I have and will learn in this quest.
May be you should go into politics, Timi.. I mean it really. But make sure you join the good force.. 🙂
Though I have to say, what this guy is talking about, is also a bit old cheese, isnt it? Sounds a like what Yochal Benkler and others are talking about for decades. Sounds like the readings a teacher of mine gave me at university… (again 10 years ago.. fuck I feel old saying this but I even found two white hhairs in my beard this morning!)
this cyber-ninja will always be on the side of good, niels ;-p
you know, a lot of the stuff we hear now are not really new. they are rooted in older observations of the world and technology, of people and our history. i don’t think that’s not a bad thing. sometimes we do need the same questions to be heard and the same issues to be discussed simply because they are stil relevant. i think we need people who feel inclined to continue these talks and go on posing the same old questions of the world. lawrence lessig mentioned in one of his presentations that he’s been talking about the creative commons for years and yet significant battles still need to be won in this area. therefore, the need to continue the discourse. of course action is needed otherwise we are all just engaging in intellectual masturbation, innit? ;-p
i remember lectures / discussions from 15 years ago that still resonate true today. Either they’re still important or the world hasn’t changed much to merit new questions. i do believe thogh that it’s not just about providing a different answer, but we also need to start asking new questions in our field.