Words matter. These are the best Ethan Zuckerman Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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.
A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.
I can imagine Iceland becoming a good place to run a controversial Web site. But… Iceland may find itself forced to defend controversial speech.
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.
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.
People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative, thinking people.
The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.
When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.
The Internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be.
Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.
Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in gun control. My research on media attention suggests these spikes are extremely short-lived, and that they may be decreasing in intensity.
I can read a lot of French newspapers with Google Translate and have them read quite comfortably.
It’s become relatively commonplace to find corners of Africa that have good cell coverage but no electrical power.
Reddit names are unconnected to real-world identities and it’s commonplace for users to create ‘throwaway’ accounts to reveal sensitive information.
People generally pay attention to what they already know about and what they care about.
Creativity is an import-export business.
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.
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.
Curators are great, but they’re inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.
There’s no locality on the web – every market is a global market.
Teenagers try to hide what’s really going on in their communication online.
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 global space.
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.’
On the Internet, information from Indiana and India is equally cheap and easy to access.
