Ethan Zuckerman is an American blogger, and an Internet activist. He is the director of the MIT Center for Civic Media.
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Biography
He is a graduate of Williams College, spent a year in Accra, Ghana on a Fulbright scholarship, and currently resides in Lanesborough, Massachusetts with his wife Rachel Barenblat.
Zuckerman is on the board of directors of Ushahidi[1], Global Voices[2], and the Ghanaian journalism training nonprofit, PenPlusBytes[3].
Zuckerman was one of the first staff members of Tripod.com, one of the first successful "dot com" enterprises, and later founder of Geekcorps and Global Voices Online.[4] He won the MIT Technology Review "Technology in the Service of Humanity" award in 2002 for his work on Geekcorps[5] Ethan has been a senior researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, where he is also a long-time fellow. His work at the Berkman Center has included research into global media attention,[6][7] as well as the co-founding of Global Voices in collaboration with Rebecca MacKinnon. For some years he was also a contributing writer for Worldchanging.com, where he served as president of the board of directors.
In January 2007, he joined the inaugural Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board.
In 2008 he coined the cute cat theory of digital activism.
In 2011, he was named by Foreign Policy magazine to its list of top global thinkers, in which he stated the Best idea is "The world isn't flat and globalization is only beginning, which means we have time to change what we're doing and get it right.".[8] Also in September of that year, he became the director of the MIT Center for Civic Media.[9]
References
- ^ "Board of Directors". http://ushahidi.com/about-us/team/board-of-directors. Retrieved 2012-04-16.
- ^ "Board of Directors". http://globalvoicesonline.org/about/board-of-directors/. Retrieved 2012-04-16.
- ^ "About Penplusbytes:: Board of Directors". http://www.penplusbytes.org/detail.cfm?prodcatID=1&tblNewsCatID=23&tblNewsID=143. Retrieved 2012-04-16.
- ^ Biography, Berkman Center for Internet & Society (url accessed 22 April 2006)
- ^ "2002 TR100". http://www.technologyreview.com/business/12864/. Retrieved 2012-04-16.
- ^ Zuckerman, E. (2004). "Global Attention Profiles - A Working Paper: First Steps Towards a Quantitative Approach to the Study of Media Attention". SSRN Electronic Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.487943.
- ^ Zuckerman, E. (2007). "Meet the bridgebloggers". Public Choice 134: 47–65. doi:10.1007/s11127-007-9200-y.
- ^ "The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers". Foreign Policy. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/11/28/the_fp_top_100_global_thinkers?page=0,44#thinker73. Retrieved 2012-04-14.
- ^ Press release, MIT News Office (url accessed 28 June 2011)
Further reading
Works by Zuckerman
- "Using the Internet to Examine Patterns of Foreign Coverage." Neiman Reports, Fall 2004.
- Hal Roberts, Ethan Zuckerman, and John Palfrey. 2007 Circumvention Landscape Report: Methods, Uses, and Tools. Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, March 2009
- "Innovating From Constraint in the Developing World." Harvard Business Review, January 23, 2009
- "Web 2.0 tools for development: simple tools for smart people." Participatory Learning and Action, Volume 59, Number 1, June 2009
- "Citizen Media and the Kenyan Electoral Crisis." In: Stuart Allan. Citizen journalism: global perspectives. Peter Lang, 2009
- "Decentralizing the Mobile Phone:A Second ICT4D Revolution?" Information Technologies & International Development, Volume 6, SE, Special Edition 2010
- "International reporting in the age of participatory media." Daedalus, Spring 2010, Vol. 139, No. 2.
- "Internet Freedom: Beyond Circumvention." In: The next digital decade : essays on the future of the internet. Washington D.C. : TechFreedom, 2010.
- "The First Twitter Revolution?" Foreign Policy, January 14, 2011
- Hal Roberts, Ethan Zuckerman and John Palfrey. 2011 Circumvention Tool Evaluation. Berkman Center, 2011
About Zuckerman
- Gregory T. Huang. "Interview: Over the Border." The New Scientist, Volume 193, Issue 2587, 20 January 2007
External links
- My Heart's in Accra (Ethan Zuckerman's blog)
- Bio - Berkman Center for Internet & Society
- Global Voices Online
- Ethan Zuckerman at TED Conferences
- Works by or about Ethan Zuckerman in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Interview with Zuckerman on Worldchanging.com
- Video (with mp3 available) of discussion about cyber-war and social media with Zuckerman and Evgeny Morozov on Bloggingheads.tv
See also
- Media Cloud, co-developed by Zuckerman