Ethan Zuckerman
Ethan Zuckerman
Ethan Zuckerman is an American media scholar, blogger, and Internet activist. He is the director of the MIT Center for Civic Media and the author most recently of Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection, which won the Zócalo Book Prize...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
CountryUnited States of America
When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.
Sometimes you need the things you didn't know you needed to know.
confusing world search-engine
A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine.
locality
There's no locality on the web - every market is a global market.
victory substance wikipedia
Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.
teenager communication trying
Teenagers try to hide what's really going on in their communication online.
technology understanding calling
The term 'cyberutopian' tends to be used only in the context of critique. Calling someone a cyberutopian implies that he or she has an unrealistic and naively overinflated sense of what technology makes possible and an insufficient understanding of the forces that govern societies.
communication firsts steps
A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.
creativity imports
Creativity is an import-export business.
phones mobile-phones phenomenal
The uptake on mobile phones in Africa is phenomenal.
practice average common
Re-tweeting is a pretty common practice on Twitter, but on an average day, we see maybe one out of 20 posts is a re-tweet.
cute moving lists
Cute. I'm on the waitlist to beta a new product, and have been offered the chance to move up in the list if I tweet about it. Not doing so.
talking want stopping
Talking about 'stopping globalization' is unrealistic - and probably not what anti-globalization protesters actually want.
thinking people creative
People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative, thinking people.