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Social Media and Culture

Here is the Clay Shirky talk that Malcolm Gladwell is (in part) reacting to in his New Yorker article:

http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_cellphones_twitter_facebook_can_make_history

and some comments from Gladwell:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j7YvDXotpo

Links to some interesting articles on the role of social media in the "Arab Spring":

http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/what-the-arab-spring-tells-us-about-the-future-of-social-media-in-revolutionary-movements

http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/malcolm-gladwell-social-media-revolutions-twitter/