This TED talk by Clay Shirky, about the historical significance of social media, nicely articulates the new media landscape of the 21st century:- It is “global, social, ubiquitous, and cheap.”
- The new communication pattern is many-to-many.
- Sources of information have become sites of collaboration.
Image: Partial map of the internet by Matt Britt, available from: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Internet_map_1024.jpg.
