Ethan Zuckerman Quotes

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• [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.
• Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.
• There's no locality on the web - every market is a global market.
• You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of it, and talk…
• The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out.
• 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.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.
• 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…
• The Internet is corporations all the way down.
• It's becoming clear that the world is listening, so now we're trying to get new groups of people talking.
• 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.
• While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented.
• The culture around here is much less cutthroat than it is in, say, Silicon Valley, or even within the non-profit culture in D.C..
• Teenagers try to hide what's really going on in their communication online.
• 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…
• A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.
• 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…

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