Quotes by Ethan Zuckerman

About 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.
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For countries such as Kenya to emerge as economic powerhouses, they need better infrastructure: roads, ports, smart grids and power plants. Infrastructure is expensive, and takes a long time to build. In the meantime, hackers are building 'grassroots...

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Creativity is an import-export business.

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Teenagers try to hide what's really going on in their communication online.

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A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.

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Curators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.

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The Internet has become a bunch of interlinked but linguistically distinct and culturally specific spaces. There's some interface between them, but there's a lot less than there was years back when we were sort of pretending that this was one great g...

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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.

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The Internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be.

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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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I can imagine Iceland becoming a good place to run a controversial Web site. But... Iceland may find itself forced to defend controversial speech.

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A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine.

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It's my fond hope that social networks such as Facebook will help users broaden their perspectives by listening to a different set of people than they encounter in their daily life. But I fear services such as Facebook may be turning us into imaginar...

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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.

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The U.S. media have done a shameful job of reporting on the Arab world.

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The uptake on mobile phones in Africa is phenomenal.

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If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?

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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 serendipit...

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On Twitter, if you want to quote someone else, you say, 'RT, re-tweet, that person's name, and then what they said before.' And it's a way of essentially saying, 'I'm not saying this, but my friend said this and I thought this was interesting.'

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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.

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The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out.

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Author Bio

  • NameEthan Zuckerman
  • DescriptionAmerican media scholar, blogger, and Internet activist
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionBlogger; Human Rights Activist