I can read a lot of French newspapers with Google Translate and have them read quite comfortably. Ethan Zuckerman More Quotes by Ethan Zuckerman More Quotes From Ethan Zuckerman The Internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be. Ethan Zuckerman internet 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. Ethan Zuckerman technologyunderstandingcalling Teenagers try to hide what's really going on in their communication online. Ethan Zuckerman teenagercommunicationtrying Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance. Ethan Zuckerman wikipediavictorysubstance There's no locality on the web - every market is a global market. Ethan Zuckerman locality 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 movementimportantpeople 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 entrepreneurorganizationrunning 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 diversitychurchschool 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 mediagunattention 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 nameswantinteresting 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 growing-upstoriesaverage The Internet is corporations all the way down. Ethan Zuckerman corporationsinternetway While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented. Ethan Zuckerman censorshiplevelsspeech [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. Ethan Zuckerman populationafrican-americantechnology The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior. Ethan Zuckerman informationchallengesway Reddit names are unconnected to real-world identities and it's commonplace for users to create 'throwaway' accounts to reveal sensitive information. Ethan Zuckerman realidentitynames You just don't have as much training data to draw from. Ethan Zuckerman top-news It's become relatively commonplace to find corners of Africa that have good cell coverage but no electrical power. Ethan Zuckerman africafindgoodpower 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 eyesmeinternetpeople The U.S. media have done a shameful job of reporting on the Arab world. Ethan Zuckerman jobmediadoneworld
