Gordon Brown addresses social media's transformational capacity

President Barack Obama isn’t the only world leader to embrace social media: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, addressing the TEDGlobal conference in London, said that social media such as Twitter and Facebook are transforming politics with a “shared global ethic.” In his speech, Brown recounted how media shaped major historical events, such as the Vietnam War and Tiananmen Square, and compared the role media played in those events to the role the “Youtube generation” is playing in recent events, like the election protests in Iran.