“Innovation can happen everywhere…”
The line above is the main point I took from Clay Shirky’s talk: How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history.
Shirky discussed how the world is currently going through the largest increase in expressive capability in human history. This is due in part; because of the line I stated earlier, innovation can happen everywhere.
Shirky touched on how the media landscape is becoming increasingly social, because practically everyone has Internet capabilities. The Internet is the carriage to all media. Everything gravitates towards the Internet. There is a many to many pattern that Shirky described. Both mobile and stationary Internet users can consume and produce, which is why media is no longer a one-way conversation, it’s increasingly social.
Shirky gave the example of how recently in China an earthquake was reported as it was happening by citizens. People were uploading pictures to the Internet and Twitter. The BBC even heard the news first via Twitter. China’s government found out about the quake through the citizens as well. This example is quite historic, because it shows how the media is no longer produced by professionals, but by any Internet users. Shirky explained how this event broke through the Great Fire Wall of China, as he calls it. The Chinese Government usually filters all media viewable to its citizens on the Internet, but this time the firewall was facing the wrong way, the citizens were the ones creating the media.
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