TED Talks just posted a video of Clay Shirky speaking to participants at a conference at the State Department where he discusses how social media are changing how we communicate. “Where the phone gave us the one-to-one pattern, and television, magazines, radio and books gave us the one-to-many pattern, the Internet gives us the many-to-many pattern,” he says. Shirky uses global news events, such as the earthquakes in China and President Obama’s campaign, to illustrate how citizens are becoming involved in citizen journalism. His observations have some interesting implications, even for community newspapers, as these social media technologies continue to spread.
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