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Ethan Zuckerman

@EthanZ

Ethan Zuckerman is an associate professor of public policy, communication, and information at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and and head of the Institute for Digital Public Infrastructure. A former head of MIT’s Center for Civic Media and senior researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, he is also an author and cofounder of Global Voices Online.

How Participatory Media Promote Coverage of Social Movements

How Participatory Media Promote Coverage of Social Movements

“Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them” by Ethan Zuckerman In “Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them,” published January…
Ethan Zuckerman: "Journalistic organizations … need to have a civic impact"

Ethan Zuckerman: “Journalistic organizations … need to have a civic impact”

Ethan Zuckerman is the director of MIT’s Center for Civic Media, where he is also a principal researcher, and he is the cofounder of the international citizen media blogging community Global Voices.…

The Attention Deficit: Plenty of Content, Yet an Absence of Interest

RELATED ARTICLES“Going Online With Watchdog Journalism”– Paul E. SteigerEditor in chief, ProPublica(From Spring 2008)“Defining an Online Mission: Local Investigative Reporting”– Andrew Donohue, editor– Scott Lewis, CEOVoice of…

Serendipity, Echo Chambers, and the Front Page

As readers on the Web, we may filter out ‘perspectives that might challenge our assumptions and preconceptions about what’s important and newsworthy.’

The Global Voices Manifesto

We believe in free speech: in protecting the right to speak—and the right to listen. We believe in universal access to the tools of speech.To that end, we seek to…

Gathering Voices to Share With a Worldwide Online Audience

‘Global Voices pulls together interesting threads of conversation and reporting from the global cacophony of blogging voices.’

Using the Internet to Examine Patterns of Foreign Coverage

African events are often not reported because Western news coverage is strongly connected to a nation’s wealth.