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
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.
way corporations internet
The Internet is corporations all the way down.
speech levels censorship
While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented.
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.
technology african-american population
[According to Twitter] 24 percent of American Twitter users are African-American. That's about twice as high as African-Americans are represented in the population.
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..
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.
balance tools news
Twitter is my main tool for ensuring news balance.
talking people listening
It's becoming clear that the world is listening, so now we're trying to get new groups of people talking.
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.
mean world clicks
The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out.
school diversity church
If I use Facebook to stay in touch with my high school friends who are church-going Republicans, I may be getting more ideological diversity than in hanging out with secular progressives on the World Politics sub-reddit.
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.