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
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. – Ethan Zuckerman
Curators are great, but they’re inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications. – Ethan Zuckerman
The Internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be. – Ethan Zuckerman
A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries. – Ethan Zuckerman
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. – Ethan Zuckerman
When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories. – Ethan Zuckerman
The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we’re usually filtering it out. – Ethan Zuckerman
I can imagine Iceland becoming a good place to run a controversial Web site. But… Iceland may find itself forced to defend controversial speech. – Ethan Zuckerman
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. – Ethan Zuckerman
The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior. – Ethan Zuckerman
It’s become relatively commonplace to find corners of Africa that have good cell coverage but no electrical power. – 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. – Ethan Zuckerman
If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems? – Ethan Zuckerman
The Internet has become a bunch of interlinked but linguistically distinct and culturally specific spaces. There’s some interface between them, but there’s a lot less than there was years back when we were sort of pretending that this was one great global space. – Ethan Zuckerman
I can read a lot of French newspapers with Google Translate and have them read quite comfortably. – Ethan Zuckerman
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. – Ethan Zuckerman
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. – Ethan Zuckerman
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 eyes and ears for the people sending me postings from Africa. – Ethan Zuckerman
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
Engineering serendipity is this idea that we can help people come across unexpected but helpful connections at a better than random rate. And in some ways it’s based on trying to reassess this notion of serendipitous as lucky – to think of serendipitous as smart. – Ethan Zuckerman
People generally pay attention to what they already know about and what they care about. – Ethan Zuckerman
