Quotes from Ethan Zuckerman

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.

People generally pay attention to what they already know about and what they care about.

I study the ways new media shapes people's perceptions of the world.

The uptake on mobile phones in Africa is phenomenal.

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.

There's no locality on the web - every market is a global market.

I can imagine Iceland becoming a good place to run a controversial Web site. But... Iceland may find itself forced to defend controversial speech.

Creativity is an import-export business.

Teenagers try to hide what's really going on in their communication online.

When you sign up for Facebook, the service first searches for any mentions of your name and suggests you befriend anyone who has mentioned you in their posts. It then asks to access your e-mail account so you can connect with anyone with whom you regularly correspond.

The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out.

Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.

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.

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

Reading the text of my blog itself is not really the interesting part. The exciting part is how the Internet allows me to be the eyes and ears for the people sending me postings from Africa.

A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine.

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.

Google doesn't really forget.

When I'm playing with circular saws, I'm offline (though often listening to podcasts) and when I sit in the cabin to read or write, it's wonderful to be offline for a few hours at a time.

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.

It's become relatively commonplace to find corners of Africa that have good cell coverage but no electrical power.

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.

The U.S. media have done a shameful job of reporting on the Arab world.

A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.