Ethan Zuckerman Quotes

Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance. — Ethan Zuckerman

Twitter is my main tool for ensuring news balance. — 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

The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior. — Ethan Zuckerman

People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative, thinking people. — Ethan Zuckerman

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

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

Creativity is an import-export business. — Ethan Zuckerman

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

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. — Ethan Zuckerman

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

Google doesn't really forget. — 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

On the Internet, information from Indiana and India is equally cheap and easy to access. — Ethan Zuckerman

While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented. — Ethan Zuckerman

I can read a lot of French newspapers with Google Translate and have them read quite comfortably. — 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 has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be. — Ethan Zuckerman

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

The uptake on mobile phones in Africa is phenomenal. — Ethan Zuckerman

I study the ways new media shapes people's perceptions of the world. — Ethan Zuckerman

Sometimes you need the things you didn't know you needed to know. — Ethan Zuckerman

It's become relatively commonplace to find corners of Africa that have good cell coverage but no electrical power. — Ethan Zuckerman

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

The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out. — Ethan Zuckerman

The U.S. media have done a shameful job of reporting on the Arab world. — 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

The Internet is corporations all the way down. — 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

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

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

People generally pay attention to what they already know about and what they care about. — Ethan Zuckerman

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.. — Ethan Zuckerman