W3.2 How Social Media Can Make History

How Social Media Can Make History

This is an older video (recorded in 2009), so when Clay Shirky discusses "the recent election" he is discussing the 2008 election, not the 2012 election.

How Social Media Can Make History Links to an external site.

Here are a few articles about the role of social media in the making of recent history:

Examination of Twitter Use in Repsonse to a 2009 Violent Crisis in the Seattle-Tacoma, Washington Area Links to an external site. [pdf], by Heverin et al., 2010
Online Community Response to Major Disaster: A Study of Tianya Forum in the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake Links to an external site. [pdf, preprint], by Y. Qu, P. Wu, and X. Wang, 2009.
Social Networks and the Web Offer a Lifeline in Haiti Links to an external site., by Jason Palmer, BBC, Jan 15, 2010
How Social Media, Internet Changed Experience of Japan Disaster Links to an external site., by Dorian Benkoil, PBS.org, March 15, 2011

"One of the fundamental characteristics of a network is that, once you are linked in the network, the network starts to shape your views and starts to shape your interactions with everybody else." - James Surowiecki, TEDTalk "When Social Media Became News"
The Moment When Social Media Became the News Links to an external site.