Ethan Zuckerman Quotes
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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 these spikes are extremely short-lived, and that they may be decreasing in intensity.
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The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.
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If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?
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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.
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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.
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Creativity is an import-export business.
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The Internet is corporations all the way down.
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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.
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People who know me well have learned to insist that I commit to obligations by opening my laptop and putting them onto the appropriate calendar or list - a verbal agreement and a promise to remember won't work.
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Talking about 'stopping globalization' is unrealistic - and probably not what anti-globalization protesters actually want.
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Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.
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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.
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It's becoming clear that the world is listening, so now we're trying to get new groups of people talking.
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Twitter is my main tool for ensuring news balance.
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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.
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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.
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When I'm playing with circular saws, I'm offline (though often listening to podcasts) and when I sit in the cabin to read or write, it's wonderful to be offline for a few hours at a time.
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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 tweet about it. Not doing so.
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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.
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Curators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.
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There's no locality on the web - every market is a global market.
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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 about it.
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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 we're blindly accepting... or blindly resistant.
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I fear that I can no longer travel without technology. Twenty years ago, I loved getting on a bus in West Africa and taking off for a city I'd never been to before, relying on advice from out-of-date travel books and fellow passengers on the bus. Now, I end up using TripAdvisor, Yelp, and Google Maps. I probably eat and sleep better when I'm on the road, but I miss the mystery of travel when it was more random and unpredictable.
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Reddit names are unconnected to real-world identities and it's commonplace for users to create 'throwaway' accounts to reveal sensitive information.
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I'm not nearly as well organized as I would like. I am a creature of to-do lists and calendars - if something doesn't get onto my Google Calendar, I don't show up for it.
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While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented.
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The uptake on mobile phones in Africa is phenomenal.
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The Internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be.
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The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out.
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