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Ethan Zuckerman

Ethan Zuckerman (born 1973) is an American media scholar, blogger, and Internet activist. He is the director of the MIT Center for Civic Media, Associate Professor of the Practice in Media Arts and Sciences at MIT and the author of the book Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection, which won the Zócalo Book Prize.

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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, Profit, Say, Valley, Valleys

When I was growing up in the U. S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.

1970S, Average, Focused, Growing Up, Newscast, Stories

Curators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.

Biases, Bigs, Curator, Decision, Implications

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.

Calling, Govern, Insufficient, Sense, Technology, Understanding

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ago, I loved getting on a bus in West Africa and taking off for a city I'd never been to before, relying on advice from out-of-date travel books and fellow passengers on the bus.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.

Book, Sleep, Technology, Tripadvisor, Twenty, Unpredictable

There's no locality on the web - every market is a global market.

Global, Locality, Market, Web

A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.

Boundaries, Common, Communication, Firsts, Language, Steps

It's becoming clear that the world is listening, so now we're trying to get new groups of people talking.

Listening, People, Talking, World

Talking about 'stopping globalization' is unrealistic - and probably not what anti-globalization protesters actually want.

Talking, Stopping, Want, Unrealistic, Actually

The Internet is corporations all the way down.

Corporations, Way, Internet

Creativity is an import-export business.

Business, Creativity, Imports

A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine.

Confusing, Gets, Search Engine, World

The Internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be.

Become, Internet, Leveller, Thought

Reddit names are unconnected to real-world identities and it's commonplace for users to create 'throwaway' accounts to reveal sensitive information.

Identity, Information, Names, Real, Reveal, Sensitive

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.

Agreement, Laptop, Onto, People, Promise, Work

Teenagers try to hide what's really going on in their communication online.

Communication, Hide, Online, Teenager, Teenagers, Trying

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, Fine, Media, Old Friends, People, Social

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.

Average, Common, Maybe, Practice, See, Twitter

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.

Writing, Listening, Cabins, Write, Offline

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. '

Interesting, Names, Said, Twitter, Want, Way

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