Ethan Zuckerman famous quotes

04-17-2025

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

#Culture #Valleys #Profit
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

#Average #Practice #Common
The uptake on mobile phones in Africa is phenomenal.
-- Ethan Zuckerman

#Phones #Mobile Phones #Phenomenal
A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine.
-- Ethan Zuckerman

#Confusing #World #Search Engine
Creativity is an import-export business.
-- Ethan Zuckerman

#Creativity
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

#Media #People #Old Friends
While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented.
-- Ethan Zuckerman

#Levels #Speech #Censorship
Teenagers try to hide what's really going on in their communication online.
-- Ethan Zuckerman

#Teenager #Communication #Trying
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

#Technology #Understanding #Calling
A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.
-- Ethan Zuckerman

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

#Talking #People #Listening
The Internet is corporations all the way down.
-- Ethan Zuckerman

#Corporations #Way #Internet
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

#Thoughtful #Intelligent #Benefits
Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.
-- Ethan Zuckerman

#Victory #Wikipedia #Substance
There's no locality on the web - every market is a global market.
-- 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

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

#Mean #World #Clicks
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

#Running #Organization #Entrepreneur
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

#School #Diversity #Church
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

#Gun #Media #May
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

#Names #Interesting #Want
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 Up #Average #Stories
[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

#Technology #African American #Population

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