I study the ways new media shapes people's perceptions of the world. — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
It's fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
It's becoming clear that the world is listening, so now we're trying to get new groups of people talking. — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
People generally pay attention to what they already know about and what they care about. — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative,… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Reading the text of my blog itself is not really the interesting part. The exciting part is how the Internet allows me… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
It's my fond hope that social networks such as Facebook will help users broaden their perspectives by listening to a different set… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
People who know me well have learned to insist that I commit to obligations by opening my laptop and putting them onto… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Engineering serendipity is this idea that we can help people come across unexpected but helpful connections at a better than random rate.… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Now if you're using Twitter or other social networks, and you didn't realize this was a space with a lot of Brazilians… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine. — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share
Cute. I'm on the waitlist to beta a new product, and have been offered the chance to move up in the list if I… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share
While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented. — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share
Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in gun control. My research on media attention… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share
It's becoming clear that the world is listening, so now we're trying to get new groups of people talking. — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share
People who know me well have learned to insist that I commit to obligations by opening my laptop and putting them onto the appropriate… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share
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,… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share
The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out. — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share
Reddit names are unconnected to real-world identities and it's commonplace for users to create 'throwaway' accounts to reveal sensitive information. — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share
[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. — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share
On the Internet, information from Indiana and India is equally cheap and easy to access. — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share
A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries. — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share
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. — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share
