Ethan Zuckerman
Ethan Zuckerman | |
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Born | January 4, 1973 |
Nationality | American |
Education | Williams College (BA) |
Occupation | Media scholar |
Scientific career | |
Notable students | Joy Buolamwini[1] |
Website | ethanzuckerman |
Ethan Zuckerman (born January 4, 1973)
Education
Zuckerman is a graduate of
Career
Zuckerman was one of the first staff members of
In 2000, he founded
He won the MIT Technology Review "Technology in the Service of Humanity" award in 2002 for his work on
In January 2007, he joined the inaugural Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board.
In 2008, he coined the cute cat theory of digital activism.[citation needed]
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".[14] Also in September of that year, he became the director of the MIT Center for Civic Media.[15]
Zuckerman was an Open Society Global Board member, and also sits on the board of directors of
He was interviewed in the 2015 web documentary about internet privacy, Do Not Track.[19]
On July 1, 2016, Zuckerman was appointed Associate Professor of the Practice in Media Arts and Sciences at MIT.[3]
In 2019, revelations of Media Lab director Joi Ito's connections with Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender, shed light on the extent of monetary gifts from Epstein to the Media Lab and Ito's startups outside of MIT. Zuckerman resigned from his position[20] as director of the MIT Center for Civic Media, in protest of the Media Lab's involvement with Epstein.[21] He joined the faculty of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in April 2020.[6][22]
Personal life
Zuckerman resides[when?] in Lanesborough, Massachusetts, and has a son with Rachel Barenblat.[23] On October 7, 2022, Zuckerman married Amy Price.[24]
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, 2009-03
- "Innovating From Constraint in the Developing World." Harvard Business Review, 2009-01-23
- "Web 2.0 tools for development: simple tools for smart people." Participatory Learning and Action, Volume 59, Number 1, Change at hand: Web 2.0 for development, 2009–06, IIED and CTA.
- "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? Archived September 26, 2018, at the Wayback Machine" 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? Archived October 17, 2014, at the Foreign Policy, 2011-01-14
- Hal Roberts, Ethan Zuckerman and John Palfrey. 2011 Circumvention Tool Evaluation. Berkman Center, 2011
- ISBN 978-0-393-08283-8.
- "Building a More Honest Internet" Columbia Journalism Review, Fall 2019.
See also
- Media Cloud, co-developed by Zuckerman
References
- OCLC 1026503582.
- ^ a b Boutin, Paul (August 2000). "Visualize World Geeks". Wired. Vol. 8, no. 8.
Ethan Zuckerman ... the high-energy 27-year-old ..."
- ^ a b "Ethan Zuckerman Appointed Associate Professor of the Practice in Media Arts and Sciences". MIT Media Lab. July 1, 2016. Archived from the original on October 4, 2017. Retrieved December 3, 2016.
- ^ "On me, and the Media Lab | … My heart's in Accra". August 21, 2019. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
- ^ "Ethan Zuckerman Wins Zócalo's Fourth Annual Book Prize". Zócalo Public Square. April 3, 2014.
- ^ a b "Internet Pioneer Ethan Zuckerman Named to Interdisciplinary Faculty Appointment at UMass Amherst". Office of News & Media Relations | UMass Amherst. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
- ^ Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University. Retrieved October 10, 2014.
- ^ Zuckerman, Ethan (August 14, 2014). "The Internet's Original Sin: It's not too late to ditch the ad-based business model and build a better web". The Atlantic. Retrieved August 20, 2014.
- ^ Zuckerman, Ethan. "Ethan Zuckerman | Berkman Center". Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Retrieved April 22, 2006.
- ^ "Board · Global Voices". Global Voices. Retrieved April 9, 2022.
- ^ "2002 TR100". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
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- S2CID 55806852.
- ^ "The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers". Foreign Policy. November 28, 2011. Archived from the original on April 16, 2012. Retrieved April 14, 2012.
- ^ "Ethan Zuckerman, cyberscholar and activist, to lead MIT Center for Civic Media". MIT News. June 30, 2011. Retrieved August 20, 2014.
- ^ "Board of Directors". ushahidi.com. Archived from the original on April 19, 2012. Retrieved April 16, 2012.
- ^ "Board of Directors". globalvoices.org. Retrieved April 16, 2012.
- ^ "About Penplusbytes: Board of Directors". penplusbytes.org. Archived from the original on July 27, 2013. Retrieved April 16, 2012.
- ^ Davis, Nicola (April 14, 2015). "Do Not Track: an online, interactive documentary about who's watching you". The Guardian. Retrieved April 15, 2015.
- ^ Zuckerman, Ethan (August 21, 2019). "On me, and the Media Lab". Medium.
- ^ "Head of MIT Media Lab faces crisis that tears at lab he helped elevate - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com.
- ^ "Next steps | … My heart's in Accra". April 28, 2020. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
- ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved April 9, 2022.
- ^ Zuckerman, Ethan (October 22, 2022). "Our wedding, October 7-9, 2022". Retrieved November 16, 2022.
Further reading
- Gregory T. Huang (January 20, 2007). "Interview: Over the Border". New Scientist. 193 (2587).
External links
- My Heart's in Accra (Ethan Zuckerman's blog)
- Bio - Berkman Center for Internet & Society
- Ethan Zuckerman at TED
- 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