Ethan Zuckerman quotes
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“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 ZuckermanSource : "Dot-coms turn declining small town into 'Silicon Village'" by Perri Peltz, cnn.com. December 30, 2000.
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“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.”
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“The uptake on mobile phones in Africa is phenomenal.”
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“A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine.”
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“Creativity is an import-export business.”
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“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.”
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“While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented.”
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“Teenagers try to hide what's really going on in their communication online.”
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“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.”
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“A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.”
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“It's becoming clear that the world is listening, so now we're trying to get new groups of people talking.”
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“The Internet is corporations all the way down.”
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“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.”
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“Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.”
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“There's no locality on the web - every market is a global market.”
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“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.”
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“The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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 ZuckermanSource : "Mourn, and take action on guns" by Ethan Zuckerman, www.cnn.com. December 16, 2012.
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“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 ZuckermanSource : "Twitter's Impact On Iran Protests Examined". "All Things Considered" with Michele Norris, www.npr.org. June 19, 2009.
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“When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.”
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“[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 Quotes #African American Quotes #Population Quotes
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