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
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People generally pay attention to what they already know about and what they care about.
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I study the ways new media shapes people's perceptions of the world.
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Engineering serendipity is this idea that we can help people come across unexpected but helpful connections at a better than random rate. And in some ways it's based on trying to reassess this notion of serendipitous as lucky - to think of serendipitous as smart.
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It's become relatively commonplace to find corners of Africa that have good cell coverage but no electrical power.
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Now if you're using Twitter or other social networks, and you didn't realize this was a space with a lot of Brazilians in it, you're like most of us. Because what happens on a social network is you interact with the people that you have chosen to interact with.
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Reading the text of my blog itself is not really the interesting part. The exciting part is how the Internet allows me to be the eyes and ears for the people sending me postings from Africa.