Ethan Zuckerman Quotes (43 quotes)

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„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.“
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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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„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.“
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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.'“
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„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.“
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„It's my fond hope that social networks such as Facebook will help users broaden their perspectives by listening to a different set of people than they encounter in their daily life. But I fear services such as Facebook may be turning us into imaginary cosmopolitans.“
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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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„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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„The Internet has become a bunch of interlinked but linguistically distinct and culturally specific spaces. There's some interface between them, but there's a lot less than there was years back when we were sort of pretending that this was one great global space.“
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„The uptake on mobile phones in Africa is phenomenal.“
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„The U.S. media have done a shameful job of reporting on the Arab world.“
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„The Internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be.“
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„The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.“
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„Sometimes you need the things you didn't know you needed to know.“
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„Reddit names are unconnected to real-world identities and it's commonplace for users to create 'throwaway' accounts to reveal sensitive information.“
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„People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative, thinking people.“
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„On the Internet, information from Indiana and India is equally cheap and easy to access.“
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„I can read a lot of French newspapers with Google Translate and have them read quite comfortably.“
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„I can imagine Iceland becoming a good place to run a controversial Web site. But... Iceland may find itself forced to defend controversial speech.“
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„Google doesn't really forget.“
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Ethan Zuckerman
Nationality: American
Author Profession: Activist

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