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While news from iran streams to the world, clay shirky shows how facebook, twitter, and txts help citizens in repressive regimes report on real news, bypassing censors however briefly. The insurgent public sphere role of social media, its implications, and likely. Clay shirky is professor of new media at new york university and the author of cognitive surplus. On january 17, 2001, during the impeachment trial of philippine president joseph estrada, loyalists in the philippine congress voted to set aside key evidence against him.
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