70 Quotes by Ethan Zuckerman

"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."

"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."

"Engineering serendipity is this idea that we can help people come across unexpected but helpful connections at a better than random rate. And in some ways it's based on trying to reassess this notion of serendipitous as lucky - to think of serendipitous as smart."

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

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

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

"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."

"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."