Ethan Zuckerman quotes

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. (Ethan Zuckerman)
A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine. View quote
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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. View quote
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Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance. View quote
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The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out. View quote
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The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior. View quote
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When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories. View quote
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People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative, thinking people. View quote
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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. View quote
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Teenagers try to hide what's really going on in their communication online. View quote
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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. (Ethan Zuckerman)
The Internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be. View quote
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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? View quote
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There's no locality on the web - every market is a global market. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries. View quote
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Creativity is an import-export business. View quote
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The uptake on mobile phones in Africa is phenomenal. (Ethan Zuckerman)
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. View quote
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For countries such as Kenya to emerge as economic powerhouses, they need better infrastructure: roads, ports, smart grids and power plants. Infrastructure is expensive, and takes a long time to build. In the meantime, hackers are building 'grassroots infrastructure,' using the mobile-phone system to build solutions that are ready for market. View quote
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Talking about 'stopping globalization' is unrealistic - and probably not what anti-globalization protesters actually want. View quote
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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. View quote
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Ethan Zuckerman

Ethan Zuckerman - Image
Photo: Joi Ito from Cambridge, MA, USA, CC BY 2.0
Occupation: American Activist
Born: January 4, 1973
Quotes count: 26