Understanding the Inventions That Changed the World. Episode 35, Social Media and Democracy.
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (33 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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W. Bernard Carlson
Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2013.
Inventions are not necessarily "finished" until they are put into the hands of consumers, and perhaps nowhere is this more apparent than in the world of social media, where a Tunisian blogger can be as much an "inventor" of Facebook as Mark Zuckerberg. This lecture looks at the evolution of social media and its role in recent political events around the world.