TED: Clay Shirky – ‘Social Media Will Change The World’

Today we are going through a media revolution. Anyone who has a message that they want to spread can, using today technology and social media.

The phone gave us the ‘one to one’ communication

The tv and radio gave us the ‘one to many’ communication

The internet has given us the ability to communicate from ‘many to many’

As recently as last decade the majority of all media was produced by professionals, those days are over now never to return.

Anyone who has a message they want to convey anywhere in the world can get it out. The question we face now is how can we best use this media to share that message.

Which brings me to the point that I’d like to emphasize here. Anyone with any message or goal can do so now, regardless of who you are or where you come from, because the internet and social media empower each and every one of us to do so.

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