70 Quotes by Ethan Zuckerman

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

"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."

"I can read a lot of French newspapers with Google Translate and have them read quite comfortably."

"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."

"Creativity is an import-export business."

"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."

"Cute. I'm on the waitlist to beta a new product, and have been offered the chance to move up in the list if I tweet about it. Not doing so."

"People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative, thinking people."

"Curators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications."

"If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?"