When you sign up for Facebook, the service first searches for any mentions of your name and suggests you befriend anyone who has mentioned you in their posts. It then asks to access your e-mail account so you can connect… — 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 of people than they encounter in their daily life. But I fear services such as Facebook may be… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine. — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 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 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 in it,… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out. — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
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 Image
[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 Image
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 Image
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 Image