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
calls front itself lead page reach shaping
Reddit, which calls itself 'The Front Page of the Internet,' is more influential in shaping Internet culture than its comparatively small reach would lead you to believe.
french translate
I can read a lot of French newspapers with Google Translate and have them read quite comfortably.
arab job media reporting shameful
The U.S. media have done a shameful job of reporting on the Arab world.
becoming defend forced good iceland itself run web
I can imagine Iceland becoming a good place to run a controversial Web site. But... Iceland may find itself forced to defend controversial speech.
elite largely nations york
When you look at the 'New York Times,' you look at other elite media, what you largely get are pictures of very wealthy nations and the nations we've invaded.
express free people taking technology themselves transfer trying
We are trying to do a transfer of technology that allows people to express themselves without taking risks. It is about free speech, that's all.
mean world clicks
The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out.
thoughtful intelligent benefits
The benefits and consequences of globalization have a great deal to do with whether we're intelligent and thoughtful about how we approach globalization, or whether we're blindly accepting... or blindly resistant.
talking people listening
It's becoming clear that the world is listening, so now we're trying to get new groups of people talking.
balance tools news
Twitter is my main tool for ensuring news balance.
media people old-friends
It's fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people as well.
culture valleys profit
The culture around here is much less cutthroat than it is in, say, Silicon Valley, or even within the non-profit culture in D.C..
decision bigs curator
Curators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.
google calendars lists
I'm not nearly as well organized as I would like. I am a creature of to-do lists and calendars - if something doesn't get onto my Google Calendar, I don't show up for it.