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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

In his new book “Mistrust,” Ethan Zuckerman explores how online spaces have transformed political participation
January 21, 2021
Ethan Zuckerman: "Journalistic organizations … need to have a civic impact"

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

The director of MIT's Center for Civic Media on business models, his dislike of Facebook, and participatory versus traditional media
November 12, 2015

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…
September 30, 2010

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.’
December 15, 2008

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…
December 15, 2006

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.’
December 15, 2006

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.
September 15, 2004