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Ethan Zuckerman
Ethan Zuckerman
American Activist
Become Great Internet People World You
Related authors: Angela Davis Cesar Chavez Gloria Steinem Harriet Tubman Malcolm X Noam Chomsky Sojourner Truth Susan B. Anthony
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. Ethan Zuckerman
People Old Social Media Old Friends Tools Fine New Well Discover New People Friends Social Us Help Connects Media Need
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. Ethan Zuckerman
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There's no locality on the web - every market is a global market. Ethan Zuckerman
Every Market Locality Web Global Global Market
A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine. Ethan Zuckerman
Good World Everyone Pretty Content Without Quickly Gets Where Confusing Creates Engine Search Search Engine
The U.S. media have done a shameful job of reporting on the Arab world. Ethan Zuckerman
World Job Arab Arab World Shameful Reporting Done Media
I can imagine Iceland becoming a good place to run a controversial Web site. But... Iceland may find itself forced to defend controversial speech. Ethan Zuckerman
Good Run Find Good Place Web Web Site Forced Becoming Itself Site May Controversial Place Iceland Defend Imagine Speech
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. Ethan Zuckerman
Great Space Internet Pretending Become Back Distinct Some Between Global Sort Were Years Lot Bunch Than Spaces Them Interface Less Specific
The uptake on mobile phones in Africa is phenomenal. Ethan Zuckerman
Phones Mobile Mobile Phones Africa Phenomenal
Google doesn't really forget. Ethan Zuckerman
Google Forget Really
If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems? Ethan Zuckerman
People Simple Problems Only Simplest Forced Narratives Spread Them Engage Amplify Need
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. Ethan Zuckerman
People Better Smart Random Engineering Think Ways Some Rate Idea Come Than Trying Unexpected Across Notion Help Help People Serendipity Helpful Connections Lucky Based
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.' Ethan Zuckerman
Saying You Thought Before Twitter Else Way Say My Friend Someone Name Said Friend Person Essentially Want Quote Interesting Then
The Internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be. Ethan Zuckerman
Great Internet Thought Become Once Could
When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories. Ethan Zuckerman
Focused Up Stories Average International Growing Growing Up Nightly
The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out. Ethan Zuckerman
World Filtering Out Click Whether Mean Away Wider
People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative, thinking people. Ethan Zuckerman
Creative People Money Thought Thinking Other Something Source Than Want
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 infrastructure,' using the mobile-phone system to build solutions that are ready for market. Ethan Zuckerman
Time Better Smart Plants Long Long Time Power Build Building Market System Solutions Emerge Economic Hackers Takes Roads Power Plants Countries Ready Expensive Infrastructure Meantime Using Grassroots Ports Kenya Need
Now if you're using Twitter or other social networks, and you didn't realize this was a space with a lot of Brazilians in it, you're like most of us. Because what happens on a social network is you interact with the people that you have chosen to interact with. Ethan Zuckerman
You People Space Twitter Other Network Networks Like Most Because Lot Interact Happens Social Realize Us Social Networks Using Chosen Now
I study the ways new media shapes people's perceptions of the world. Ethan Zuckerman
People World Ways Perceptions Shapes Study New New Media Media
On the Internet, information from Indiana and India is equally cheap and easy to access. Ethan Zuckerman
Internet India Easy Indiana Cheap Equally Access Information
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. Ethan Zuckerman
You Culture Internet Believe Would More Small Lead Shaping Reach Reddit Calls Itself Than Front Front Page Influential Which Page Comparatively
Reddit names are unconnected to real-world identities and it's commonplace for users to create 'throwaway' accounts to reveal sensitive information. Ethan Zuckerman
Names Reddit Identities Reveal Accounts Information Sensitive Commonplace Create Users
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. Ethan Zuckerman
Achieve Profit Increasingly Run Inspired Entrepreneurs Missions Nonprofit While Social Themselves Turning Organizations Who Fund
Creativity is an import-export business. Ethan Zuckerman
Business Creativity
Sometimes you need the things you didn't know you needed to know. Ethan Zuckerman
You Sometimes Know Things Need Needed
The term 'cyberutopian' tends to be used only in the context of critique. Calling someone a cyberutopian implies that he or she has an unrealistic and naively overinflated sense of what technology makes possible and an insufficient understanding of the forces that govern societies. Ethan Zuckerman
Technology Understanding Sense Possible Critique Someone Only Unrealistic Tends He He Or She Term Implies She Calling Forces Insufficient Makes Context Govern Used Societies

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