Ethan Zuckerman

Civic Media and Networks--Understanding Media as an Ecosystem: Ethan Zuckerman Networks Understanding Networks @ MIT Media Lab, October 2011.

Sure, the web connects the globe, but most of us end up hearing mainly from people just like ourselves. Blogger and technologist Ethan Zuckerman wants to help share the stories of the whole wide world. He talks about clever strategies to open up your Twitter world and read the news in languages you don't even know.

He will direct MIT's influential group of technologists and academics committed to empowering communities around the globe by inventing and testing civic media tools and practices.

"I'm grateful for the opportunity to continue the exploration of civic media at MIT," Zuckerman said. "I'm excited for the chance to build on the great work done the past four years by Chris Csikszentmihalyi and his team and very much looking forward to the chance to work more closely with new Media Lab director Joi Ito, who's been a key collaborator in civic media projects I've worked on for the past decade."

I’m happy to announce that W. W. Norton & Company has agreed to publish my first book, Rewire: Rethinking Globalization in an Age of Connection. Should all go well, I hope to turn in the manuscript late this year for publication some time in 2012. I’m very grateful to my agent, David Miller of The Garamond Agency, for his hard work in helping me bring this book to the world. And I’m greatly looking forward to working with Brendan Curry at Norton.

My book asks whether the internet is leading towards more contact across boundaries of language, nation and culture and, if not, how we could rewire the tools we’ve built to increase international connection. The ideas will be familiar to many of the readers of this blog – the book is a chance to explore ideas like cultural bridging, pervasive translation, structured serendipity and xenophilia at length. For those who haven’t read posts where I’ve talked about those ideas, my TED talk is a good introduction to the ideas I’ll be exploring.

I enjoy blogging conferences, and I especially enjoy blogging TED. And while I’m pretty good at conferenceblogging, blogging my own talk is beyond me. So here are my notes – I can’t promise that what I say on stage will bear any resemblance to this, but this is what I’d planned to say. The slides are available at Slideshare, and if all goes well, I hope we’ll see video of the talk online in the next weeks or months – I’ll keep you posted.

Ethan Zuckerman served a fellow of the Berkman Center from 2003 through 2009. Since 2009, he's been a senior researcher at the center, working on projects that focus on the impact of technology and media on the developing world and on quantitative analysis of media. With Hal Roberts, he is working on comparative studies of tools for censorship circumvention, techniques for blocking-resistant publishing for human rights sites and on the Media Cloud framework for quantitative study of digital media.

Ethan Zuckerman, researcher at the Berkman Center from 2003 through 2009, speaks on Global Voices, citizen journalism, and the importance of bloggers in international media. From the International Symposium on Online Journalism in Austin, Texas.

I'm an activist, blogger and geek, living in Western Massachusetts and working in Cambridge as a research fellow at the Berkman Center. As co-founder of Global Voices, I'm interested in ways that citizen's media can address longstanding biases in the news media.

Like a lot of new ideas, Media Cloud started with a long-running argument among friends. Ethan Zuckerman and a handful of his colleagues at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School found themselves in endless disputes about the mainstream media and newer digital variations. Who sets the agenda? How is public debate shaped? What topics are covered or ignored?

Ethan Zuckerman of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society talks about the new Media Cloud project.

Today marks the launch of a big new project from our friends a couple blocks away at the Berkman Center. It’s called Media Cloud, and its aim is to allow researchers and individuals to use data to observe how stories unfold, both in the mainstream media and in the blogs.

Maps of infrastructure show what's possible in a connected world, but not necessarily what happens. Understanding globalization requires new kinds of maps - maps of flow of bits, atoms and ideas. Ethan Zuckerman discusses maps, real and suggested, to help understand our changing world.

A presentation on vibrant and fast-moving tecnological and creative developments in cities and rural areas across Africa, from mobile naking to new communication patterns.

Since 2004, Global Voices has featured summaries and translations of the most interesting and important blog posts from the developing world. The large international volunteer community behind Global Voices maintains a set of projects focused on free speech online, journalism and blogging training, and translation of important media.

An update on vibrant and fast-moving technological and creative developments in cities and rural areas across Africa, from mobile banking to new communication patterns.
- Helen Omwando, head of market intelligence for Royal Philips Electronics
- Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan author and journalist

The Next Billion: In the next five years, a billion people will log onto the Internet for the first time. They're from Nigeria, China, India, Brazil, and they're building the content of the new 'net, posting photos, videos, and blogs. What are the opportunities and threats of this increasingly polyglot, multicultural, global network, and how can people from developed nations navigate this emerging new world?

Ethan Zuckerman by whiteafrican

Ethan Zuckerman studies how the world -- the whole world -- uses new media to share information and moods across cultures, languages and platforms. He and his team recently launched Media Cloud, an open-source platform for studying online media that enables quantitative analysis of media attention.

This page is generally less interesting than my weblog, which gets maintained a lot more frequently than this does. You should read that instead, unless you're looking for a bio of me, which more or less follows below.

He has been writing for the past several years on ways to make the internet work better for creating transnational connections, focusing on making translation transparent, engineering serendipity, monitoring what content we consume and leaning on bridge figures and xenophiles.

Ethan Zuckerman by Joi Ito

In January 2007, he joined the inaugural Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board. Ethan Zuckerman was a co-founder of Tripod.com, a web hosting enterprise, and later founder of Geekcorps.

In his provocative new essay, Making Room for the Third World in the Second Superpower, Zuckerman argues that digital democracy and new media tools will have to undergo profound changes to make a difference in the developing world. It's a powerful piece, one I encourage you to read, one which raises a number of key questions. To get a start on answering those questions, I spoke with Ethan earlier this week...

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