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Wesch's transformative Web 2.0 YouTube video originally uploaded in 2007. He's a herald, the mediascape has changed in magnificent ways.

Wesch's Library of Congress presentation providing the compelling counterpoint to ABC's Stephen Weiswasser's comment on the "Internet thing": "You aren't going to turn passive consumers into active trollers on the Internet."

A "working group" studying the effects of social media and digital technology on global society.

Professor Wesch challenges us to understand how the world is so very different for the modern student.

Economics & Culture, Media & Community, Open Source

Shirky's "Gin, Television, and Social Surplus" presentation he gave at the Web 2.0 conference in April 2008.

Shirky's presentation in June 2009 at TED: Ideas worth spreading.

Shirky's TED presentation in 2005 where he argues closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning.

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