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
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.
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.
simple people needs
If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?
talking want stopping
Talking about 'stopping globalization' is unrealistic - and probably not what anti-globalization protesters actually want.
challenges information way
The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.
agreement people promise
People who know me well have learned to insist that I commit to obligations by opening my laptop and putting them onto the appropriate calendar or list - a verbal agreement and a promise to remember won't work.
internet
The Internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be.
growing-up average stories
When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.
running organization entrepreneur
Increasingly, I'm inspired by entrepreneurs who run nonprofit organizations that fund themselves, or for-profit organizations that achieve social missions while turning a profit.
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.
confusing world search-engine
A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine.