Ethan Zuckerman Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Sometimes you need the things you didn't know you needed to know.”

“The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.”

“The Internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be.”

“When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.”

“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.”

“Now if you're using Twitter or other social networks, and you didn't realize this was a space with a lot of Brazilians in it, you're like most of us. Because what happens on a social network is you interact with the people that you have chosen to interact with.”

“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.'”

“Reddit, which calls itself 'The Front Page of the Internet,' is more influential in shaping Internet culture than its comparatively small reach would lead you to believe.”

“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.”

“When you look at the 'New York Times,' you look at other elite media, what you largely get are pictures of very wealthy nations and the nations we've invaded.”