All Ethan Zuckerman Quotes
- [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. According
- Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance. Over
- There's no locality on the web - every market is a global market. Every 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… Affiliated
- The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out. Click
- 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. Achieve
- 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… Church
- 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… Attention
- 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… Essentially
- When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories. Average
- 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… Accepting
- The Internet is corporations all the way down. All
- It's becoming clear that the world is listening, so now we're trying to get new groups of people talking. Becoming
- 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. Connects
- While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented. Allowing
- 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.. Culture
- Teenagers try to hide what's really going on in their communication online. Communication
- 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… Calling
- A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries. Across
- 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… Africa
- The U.S. media have done a shameful job of reporting on the Arab world. Arab
- I can imagine Iceland becoming a good place to run a controversial Web site. But... Iceland may find itself forced to defend controversial speech. Becoming
- The uptake on mobile phones in Africa is phenomenal. Africa
- I can read a lot of French newspapers with Google Translate and have them read quite comfortably. Comfortably
- If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems? Amplify