At the same time the growing use of blogs, social media, and video sites meant more and more people were equipped with the skills to spread information.
"In closed societies, the sheer value of being able to spread information quickly is going to be the reason why social networks play such a strong role, " Fowler said.
Essentially they are trying to spread information about the jobs and complaining that the human capital industrial complex is suffering from a market failure, partly due to an informational problem.
Apparently when Twitter really arrived on the scene as a popular social media zeitgeist, while most people saw it as a way to spread information, researchers saw it as an opportunity for lots of free data.
It was a major growth moment for me as an artist because, you know, I'm committed to my mission of using hip-hop to - as a tool for social change and using hip-hop as a way to spread information, correct information about the music and the culture and about me as an American and me as a black American woman, and going to Indonesia was an intense experience.
Near universal access to information via new platforms is democratizing the spread of information and ideas.
The stock-market selloff Tuesday shows how quickly social media such as Twitter can spread false information.
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Twitter, in particular, has often claimed to be in support of the open spread of information.
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He understood, as few others did, how fundamentally vital is the spread of information.
We are exposed to and spread more information from our distant contacts than our close friends.
This disciplinary action will only hurt the spread of information and provide fodder for rapacious trial lawyers.
Haage said the commission is hopeful Parker's assistance will help it spread more information about California's coastal resources.
He understood, as few do, how fundamentally vital is the spread of information.
In capitalism, the winners do not eat the losers but teach them how to win through the spread of information.
Before now, the global spread of the net has largely defeated attempts to restrict the spread of information on it.
These reforms produced a sharp fall in unemployment just as Europe began to enjoy a productivity spurt from the spread of information technology.
"There's a call out there to spread that information -- podcasting is one of the easiest ways to do it, " he told CNN.
That gives platforms like Reddit and Facebook more influence in the spread of information and the pressure put on the media to cover and dig into certain topics.
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Or, at a time when the network is democratizing the spread of information, at least for some people, does Twitter still have an important role to play on the Internet?
By helping people form these connections, we hope to rewire the way people spread and consume information.
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But there is another person my colleague needs to thank for making the spread of vital information work so smoothly.
Academia, government, and technology are all aided by our relatively new capacity to spread and receive information at dazzling speeds from almost anywhere.
Already in 1962, the prophetic scholar of media Marshall McLuhan foresaw the coming of a "global village": a planet in which information spread as fast as in the farming village of yore.
Most involve reducing obstacles to the natural tendency of information to spread freely and evolve through collaboration.
Initially this information was spread through Twitter and over the weekend it was picked up by local media outlets.
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False information can spread fast, but it can be quickly debunked.
The critical information I spread across our state ultimately saves lives.
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Exam league tables are to be expanded to show more information about the spread of a schools results, showing how the most and least able pupils are performing.
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