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Ethan Zuckerman Quotes

There’s no locality on the web - every market is a global market Picture Quote #1

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.’ Picture Quote #1

I can imagine Iceland becoming a good place to run a controversial Web site. But... Iceland may find itself forced to defend controversial speech Picture Quote #1

It’s become relatively commonplace to find corners of Africa that have good cell coverage but no electrical power Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative, thinking people Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Curators are great, but they’re inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications Picture Quote #1

The U.S. media have done a shameful job of reporting on the Arab world Picture Quote #1

On the Internet, information from Indiana and India is equally cheap and easy to access Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

People generally pay attention to what they already know about and what they care about Picture Quote #1

Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance Picture Quote #1

A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine Picture Quote #1

A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries Picture Quote #1

Teenagers try to hide what’s really going on in their communication online Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

It’s becoming clear that the world is listening, so now we’re trying to get new groups of people talking Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we’re usually filtering it out Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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There’s no locality on the web - every market is a global market (Ethan Zuckerman Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) It’s become relatively commonplace to find corners of Africa that have good cell coverage but no electrical power. (Ethan Zuckerman Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Reddit names are unconnected to real-world identities and it’s commonplace for users to create ‘throwaway’ accounts to reveal sensitive information. (Ethan Zuckerman Quotes) Curators are great, but they’re inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications. (Ethan Zuckerman Quotes) The U.S. media have done a shameful job of reporting on the Arab world. (Ethan Zuckerman Quotes) On the Internet, information from Indiana and India is equally cheap and easy to access (Ethan Zuckerman Quotes) 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 (Ethan Zuckerman Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) People generally pay attention to what they already know about and what they care about (Ethan Zuckerman Quotes) Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance (Ethan Zuckerman Quotes) A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine (Ethan Zuckerman Quotes) A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries (Ethan Zuckerman Quotes) Teenagers try to hide what’s really going on in their communication online (Ethan Zuckerman Quotes) 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 Quotes) It’s becoming clear that the world is listening, so now we’re trying to get new groups of people talking (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 Quotes) The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we’re usually filtering it out (Ethan Zuckerman Quotes) 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 Quotes)