Networked communication fuses the previously distinct modes of broadcast and personal communication into a single channel, so content can scale effortlessly from private to public—meaning something no longer has to be interesting to more than two people to be worth putting online, a shift that disorients people raised in the prior broadcast/communication divide.

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Speaker

Clay Shirky

Evidence Quote

people are communicating to one another in a medium that scales pretty effortlessly from from almost completely private dog to completely public

Source

Clay Shirky on Coase, Collaboration and Here Comes Everybody 10/20/2008EconTalk
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