The Political Power of Social Media: Technology, the Public Sphere, and Political Change.

Since the rise of the Web in the early 1990s, the world's networked population has expanded from the low millions to the low billions. Over the same period, social media have become a fact of life for civil society globally, involving many actors—ordinary citizens, activists, nongovernmental organi...

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Publicado en:Foreign Affairs Vol. 90; no. 1; pp. 28 - 42
Autor principal: Shirky, Clay
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Foreign Affairs January/February 2011
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