Social Media for Social Upheaval

Its no secret that social media really is changing everything. Clay Shirky on TED.com talks about the advances of media starting from: few-to-few, one-to-many, and finally into today’s many-to-many.

Mr. Shirkey says of our technological innovations that they “don’t get socially interesting until they get technologically boring”. Rather than the newest most up-to-date gadget on the market, it is that which becomes ubiquitous that fuels this revolution; the “largest increase in expressive capability in human history”.

This talk was given in less than a month ago and the events taking place in Iran (#IranElection) are only proving and expanding this theory. The many-to-many media (Twitter, SMS, and cellular technology) is besting the government’s efforts for censorship - while not only alerting the outside world but still functioning to organize, inform, and give voice to the people within Iran.

Will social media be the battleground for next “War on-”; the "war on networking"?