Podcast appearances and mentions of Ethan Zuckerman

Hey Strangers, #money #tech #programming The big picture: Google remains tight-lipped about many details surrounding YouTube's inner workings. And that's a problem, according to experts, given the platform's massive global reach and influence. But now, thanks to an innovative research approach, we're getting some of the first concrete figures from the platform.A team of researchers led by Ethan Zuckerman at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has devised an ingenious approach to peek behind YouTube's tightly guarded curtain. They developed a program that essentially "guesses" random video URLs until it stumbles upon legitimate uploads.You see, every YouTube video is assigned a unique 11-character identifier within a standard URL format (for example: youtube.com/watch?v=v5B9_j114iA). The program, which is essentially a scraper, randomly generates these character strings and checks for matches. Essentially, it "drunk dials" the platform to see if a video exists.Zuckerman likened the process to a teenager prank-calling random numbers, as it requires billions of attempts before successfully landing on actual videos.=======================================My other podcasthttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKpvBEElSl1dD72Y5gtepkw**************************************************Something Strangehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRjVc2TZqN4&t=4s**************************************************article links:https://www.techspot.com/news/106791-youtube-numbers-uncovering-youtube-ghost-town-billions-unwatched.html======================================Today is for push-ups and Programming and I am all done doing push-ups Discordhttps://discord.gg/MYvNgYYFxqTikTokhttps://www.tiktok.com/@strangestcoderYoutubehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe9xwdRW2D7RYwlp6pRGOvQ?sub_confirmation=1Twitchhttps://www.twitch.tv/CodingWithStrangersTwitterhttps://twitter.com/strangestcodermerchSupport CodingWithStrangers IRL by purchasing some merch. All merch purchases include an alert: https://streamlabs.com/codingwithstrangers/merchGithubFollow my works of chaos https://github.com/codingwithstrangersTipshttps://streamlabs.com/codingwithstrangers/tipPatreonhttps://www.patreon.com/TheStrangersWebullhttps://act.webull.com/vi/c8V9LvpDDs6J/uyq/inviteUs/Join this channelhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe9xwdRW2D7RYwlp6pRGOvQ/joinTimeline00:00 intro00:26 What Talking We Talking About02:34 Article14:14 My Thoughts17:01 outro anything else?Take Care--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/coding-with-strangers/message

Internet scholar and activist Ethan Zuckerman is horrified by the American ban on TikTok. As a self-described “progressive” with a long and distinguished career advocating for internet freedom, Zuckerman expresses alarm at how the U.S. has moved from defending unfettered access to information in the 1960s to now being willing to ban popular Chinese platforms like TikTok and perhaps even DeepSeek. He suggests the ban stems from the anti-China hysteria and exaggerated fears about social media's impact on young people fueled by paranoid critics like Jonathan Haidt. If this trend toward online censorship continues, Zuckerman warns, America will become indistinguishable from other authoritarian states in its disdain for digital freedom. Here are the 5 KEEN ON takeaways from the interview with Zuckerman:* The TikTok ban represents a dramatic shift in American values - Zuckerman points out that the US has moved from defending unfettered access to information (even Communist propaganda) in 1965 to now being willing to ban popular platforms. He sees this as contradicting core First Amendment principles.* Anti-China sentiment and social media fears are driving policy - The push to ban TikTok stems from a combination of paranoia about Chinese influence and exaggerated concerns about social media's effects on youth. Zuckerman argues there's little evidence supporting claims of Chinese manipulation or widespread social media harm.* Young people view the TikTok ban as evidence of institutional disconnect - Students see the ban as proof that lawmakers don't understand modern technology or youth culture. Their response of moving to other Chinese platforms demonstrates their cynicism toward government actions.* Social media platforms have become too powerful to easily abandon - Despite disagreeing with the politics of platforms like Facebook and X, users remain because of network effects. Zuckerman himself confesses to still using these platforms to maintain connections, even while advocating for alternatives.* "Middleware" could offer a solution - Rather than banning platforms or creating new ones, Zuckerman (like Frank Fukuyama) advocates for tools that let users modify how they interact with existing platforms. However, he warns, major platforms like Meta actively resist these efforts through legal threats and technical barriers.Ethan Zuckerman is an associate professor of public policy, communication, and information, as well as director of the UMass Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, focused on reimagining the Internet as a tool for civic engagement. His research focuses on civic media, online community governance, digital public infrastructure, quantitative studies of media attention, technology, and social change. Before coming to UMass, Zuckerman was at MIT, where he served as director of the Center for Civic Media and as associate professor of practice in media arts and sciences at the MIT Media Lab. His research focuses on the use of media as a tool for social change, the role of technology in international development, and the use of new media technologies by activists. The author of Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection, he will publish a new book, Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them (W.W. Norton), in early 2021. In 2005, Zuckerman cofounded Global Voices, which showcases news and opinions from citizen media in more than 150 nations and 30 languages. Through Global Voices, and as a researcher and fellow for eight years at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, Zuckerman has led efforts to promote freedom of expression and fight censorship in online spaces. In 1999, Zuckerman founded Geekcorps, an international, nonprofit, volunteer organization that sent IT specialists to work on projects in developing nations, with a focus on West Africa. Previously, he helped found Tripod.com, one of the web's first "personal publishing" sites. In addition to authoring numerous academic articles, Zuckerman is a frequent contributor to media outlets such as The Atlantic, Wired, and CNN. He received his bachelor's degree from Williams College and, as a Fulbright scholar, studied at the University of Ghana at Legon.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting the daily KEEN ON show, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy interview series. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.Keen On is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

Ethan Zuckerman, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Communication and Information at the U of Massachusetts Amherst, is our guest, and he is on a mission to fix platforms. Not because he thinks they are inherently bad, but because there are several things about platforms that research (not least CCS) tells us are flawed. Emese Domahidi (Professor at TU Ilmenau) and Mario Haim (Professor at LMU Munich) talk with Ethan about why social media seems to be broken, what possible ways to fix it might be, how different regions of the world are approaching this challenge, and whether suing Facebook might make a difference. P.S.: We now also have a website for our podcast --> https://aboutccs.net/

The best way to clean up social media, says Ethan Zuckerman, director of the Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at the University of Massachusetts, is not necessarily a big government clampdown. What if instead the platforms allowed for new tools and filters that clean up and give us discretion over the torrent of content into our lives? That's exactly what Zuckerman wants to see — but first he has to sue Meta to make it happen. Discussed on today's episode:I Love Facebook. That's Why I'm Suing Meta. by Ethan Zuckerman, The New York Times, May 5, 2024.This episode was taped at P&T Knitwear at 180 Orchard Street — New York City's only free podcast recording studio.Send us an email with your thoughts on today's episode: info@firewall.media.Subscribe to Bradley's weekly newsletter, follow Bradley on Linkedin + Substack + YouTube, and be sure to pre-order his upcoming book, Vote With Your Phone.

Send us a Text Message.Throughout the 21st century, mistrust in our societal institutions has become commonplace. Regardless of your political leanings, we've become skeptical and suspicious of the governmental, educational, and religious institutions meant to support and protect us. How did this happen? What should we do about it? Perhaps, this mistrust is the very catalyst for reform? In today's episode, Prof. Ethan Zuckerman dissects this phenomena. Topics:The rise of institutional mistrustIs influencer culture a response to mistrusting institutions?How to transform institutionsSocial media and worldview differences"What books have had an impact on you?""What advice do you have for teenagers?"Bio:Prof. Ethan Zuckerman is an associate professor of public policy, communication and information at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is the founder of the Institute for Digital Public Infrastructure, a research group that is studying and building alternatives to the existing commercial internet. Prof. Zuckerman is the author of two books: Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them and Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection, both published through W.W. Norton. He is also the co-founder of global blogging community Global Voices and works with social change nonprofit organizations around the world. He is an alumnus of the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard, the MIT Media Lab and Comparative Media Studies at MIT, Geekcorps, and Tripod.Socials! -Lessons from Interesting People substack: https://taylorbledsoe.substack.com/Website: https://www.aimingforthemoon.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aiming4moon/Twitter: https://twitter.com/Aiming4MoonFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/aiming4moonTaylor's Blog: https://www.taylorgbledsoe.com/

Werbung finanziert das Internet. Das ist praktisch, hat aber auch negative Folgen, zum Beispiel den Aufstieg der Attention Economy und des Surveillance Kapitalismus. Und das alles, obwohl Werbung vielleicht gar nicht funktioniert. Kann es so weitergehen? Und gäbe es Alternativen? Der Podcast im Überblick: (00:02:20) Kurze Geschichte des werbebasierten Internets (00:05:34) Targeted Advertising (00:13:51) Auswirkungen: Positive und negative Folgen (00:34:50) Trends (00:41:14) Alternativen Links: Ist das Internet kaputt? https://www.srf.ch/audio/digital-podcast/ist-das-internet-kaputt?id=12510837 Content stirbt: https://www.srf.ch/audio/digital-podcast/stirbt-die-content-industrie?id=12552449 Kapitalismus zerstört das Internet: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/how-capitalism-not-a-few-bad-actors-destroyed-the-internet/ Rebuilding the Internet (The Institute of Digital Public Infrastructure): https://www.youtube.com/@theinstitutefordigitalpubl3015/featured Interview mit Ethan Zuckerman: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/awhmex Lose Sound by ImATaco: https://freesound.org/s/652328/ - License: Attribution 4.0 SRF Geek Sofa bei Discord: https://discord.gg/geeksofa

Werbung finanziert das Internet. Das ist praktisch, hat aber auch negative Folgen, zum Beispiel den Aufstieg der Attention Economy und des Surveillance Kapitalismus. Und das alles, obwohl Werbung vielleicht gar nicht funktioniert. Kann es so weitergehen? Und gäbe es Alternativen? Der Podcast im Überblick: (00:02:20) Kurze Geschichte des werbebasierten Internets (00:05:34) Targeted Advertising (00:13:51) Auswirkungen: Positive und negative Folgen (00:34:50) Trends (00:41:14) Alternativen Links: Ist das Internet kaputt? https://www.srf.ch/audio/digital-podcast/ist-das-internet-kaputt?id=12510837 Content stirbt: https://www.srf.ch/audio/digital-podcast/stirbt-die-content-industrie?id=12552449 Kapitalismus zerstört das Internet: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/how-capitalism-not-a-few-bad-actors-destroyed-the-internet/ Rebuilding the Internet (The Institute of Digital Public Infrastructure): https://www.youtube.com/@theinstitutefordigitalpubl3015/featured Interview mit Ethan Zuckerman: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/awhmex Lose Sound by ImATaco: https://freesound.org/s/652328/ - License: Attribution 4.0 SRF Geek Sofa bei Discord: https://discord.gg/geeksofa

Last week, I analyzed a new lawsuit brought by University of Massachusetts Amherst professor Ethan Zuckerman and the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. The lawsuit would loosen Big Tech's grip over our internet experience if successful. In this conversation, I'm joined by , the creator of the tool Unfollow Everything, which is at the center of the lawsuit. Louis and I discuss:* What it's like to be bullied by a massive company;* Why this lawsuit would be so consequential for consumer choice and control over our online experience;* The tools Louis would build to democratize power online.That's it for this edition of Untangled.Charley Get full access to Untangled with Charley Johnson at untangled.substack.com/subscribe

For the 100th episode of Reimagining the Internet, Ethan and Mike sit down for a conversation about a human-scale Internet, the threat of an LLM ouroboros destroying our online commons, and Ethan’s fantasies of swithing to urban planning. We want to give a heartfelt thank you to everyone who has been listening to Reimagining the […]

In the vast landscape of the Internet, YouTube is a giant, hosting over 14 billion videos that shape our digital experience. No one knew this number until Ethan Zukerman and his team calculated it using an advanced method they developed. Not only did they count the number of videos, but they also classified them, providing a vivid picture of YouTube's cultural and linguistic diversity. This analysis also reveals the algorithmic dynamics that influence user experiences. Ethan Zuckerman is an associate professor of public policy, communication and information at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He founds of the Institute for Digital Public Infrastructure.Additional Resources:How Big is YouTube?, Ethan Zukerman's blog Dec. 2023"Building a More Honest Internet" Columbia Journalism Review, Ethan Zukerman, Fall 2019Media Cloud, an open source search engine and tool for studying the open web, developed with Ethan ZukermanRecorded on 20 March 2024Conversations with Sergei GURIEV  is a podcast by Sciences Po. Hélène NAUDET supervised the production of this series, with the help of Jade SOULLARD, Sciences Po Master student. Sciences Po' studio produced and mixed it.Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

When social media is at its best, we get genuine human connection, built-in audiences, and exciting avenues for creativity and exchange. But our current social platforms are built on a surveillance model, where our data is used to predict our behavior, show us ads, and train the algorithms that keep us perpetually on the platform. It's time to explore a new vision for social media, where we don't have to give up on privacy in order to connect.  In this episode, Raffi talks to prominent critics of existing social media — and the people actively reimagining it, with truly private messaging, hyperlocal communities, and renewed sense of control over our own social data. Guests include Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, whose 2021 leaks made national news and put the social media giant in the Congressional spotlight; scholar and internet activist Ethan Zuckerman; Meredith Whittaker, the president of the Signal Foundation; Flipboard co-founder Mike McCue; and Harvard Law professor Jonathan Zittrain. To learn more about Technically Optimistic and to read the transcript for this episode: emersoncollective.com/technically-optimistic-podcast For more on Emerson Collective: emersoncollective.com Learn more about our host, Raffi Krikorian: emersoncollective.com/raffi Technically Optimistic is produced by Emerson Collective with music by Mattie Safer. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter: technicallyoptimistic.substack.com Follow on social media @emersoncollective and @emcollectivepodcasts Email us with questions and feedback at us@technicallyoptimistic.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How has our data become the world's most valuable resource? What privacy tradeoffs are we making when we engage with personalized apps, recommendations, and always-connected smart devices? Is our personal data being used to make things better, or to make tech giants even more powerful? And what do “cookies” have to do with all this?  Host Raffi Krikorian chats with experts about data's role in AI, “big data” and the data economy, surveillance capitalism, and much more. Guests include AI researcher Amba Kak, executive director of the AI Now Institute; data scientist Chris Wiggins, co-author of How Data Happened; media scholar, tech writer, and internet activist Ethan Zuckerman; engineer and inventor of the cookie Lou Montulli; and Harvard professor Jonathan Zittrain. To learn more about Technically Optimistic and to read the transcript for this episode: emersoncollective.com/technically-optimistic-podcast For more on Emerson Collective: emersoncollective.com Learn more about our host, Raffi Krikorian: emersoncollective.com/raffi Technically Optimistic is produced by Emerson Collective with music by Mattie Safer. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter: technicallyoptimistic.substack.com Follow on social media @emersoncollective and @emcollectivepodcasts Email us with questions and feedback at us@technicallyoptimistic.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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EPISODE 1664: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Ethan Zuckerman, author of MISTRUST, about he history of blogging, the Arab Spring and why there will never be another Twitter Ethan Zuckerman is an associate professor of public policy, communication, and information, as well as director of the UMass Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, focused on reimagining the internet as a tool for civic engagement. Prior to coming to UMass, Zuckerman was at MIT, where he served as director of the Center for Civic Media and associate professor of practice in media arts and sciences at the MIT Media Lab. His research focuses on the use of media as a tool for social change, the role of technology in international development, and the use of new media technologies by activists. The author of Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection, he will publish a new book, Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them (W.W. Norton), in early 2021. In 2005, Zuckerman co-founded Global Voices, which showcases news and opinions from citizen media in more than 150 nations and 30 languages. Through Global Voices, and as a researcher and fellow for eight years at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, Zuckerman has led efforts to promote freedom of expression and fight censorship in online spaces. In 1999, Zuckerman founded Geekcorps, an international, nonprofit, volunteer organization that sent IT specialists to work on projects in developing nations, with a focus on West Africa. Previously, he helped found Tripod.com, one of the web's first "personal publishing" sites. In addition to authoring numerous academic articles, Zuckerman is a frequent contributor to media outlets such as The Atlantic, Wired, and CNN. He received his bachelor's degree from Williams College and, as a Fulbright scholar, studied at the University of Ghana at Legon. Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can we get rid of the bad bits of social media and keep the good? Is it possible to create a more positive social media experience than the one we get from the platforms that dominate the landscape today? In this episode, Elaine Moore asks what the social media platforms of the future should look like, and whether platforms designed for smaller groups of users with shared interests are the way forward.We hear from writer and tech historian Benj Edwards about the BBS era of the early 1990s; University of Massachusetts professor Ethan Zuckerman; Sarah Gilbert, researcher at Cornell University and Reddit moderator; and Jonathan Abrams, partner at 8-Bit Capital and the creator of Friendster.Presented by Elaine Moore. Produced by Edwin Lane and Josh Gabert-Doyon, Executive producer is Manuela Saragosa. Sound design by Breen Turner and Samantha Giovinco. Original music by Metaphor Music. The FT's head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. Special thanks to Hannah Murphy.Mentioned in this podcast:The Lex Newsletter: Reddit and the API apocalypseDiscord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody elseReddit stands firm in clash with users as blackout on forums escalates Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Can we get rid of the bad bits of social media and keep the good? Is it possible to create a more positive social media experience than the one we get from the platforms that dominate the landscape today? In this episode, Elaine Moore asks what the social media platforms of the future should look like, and whether platforms designed for smaller groups of users with shared interests are the way forward.We hear from writer and tech historian Benj Edwards about the BBS era of the early 1990s; University of Massachusetts professor Ethan Zuckerman; Sarah Gilbert, researcher at Cornell University and Reddit moderator; and Jonathan Abrams, partner at 8-Bit Capital and the creator of Friendster.Presented by Elaine Moore. Produced by Edwin Lane and Josh Gabert-Doyon, Executive producer is Manuela Saragosa. Sound design by Breen Turner and Samantha Giovinco. Original music by Metaphor Music. The FT's head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. Special thanks to Hannah Murphy.Mentioned in this podcast:The Lex Newsletter: Reddit and the API apocalypseDiscord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody elseReddit stands firm in clash with users as blackout on forums escalatesRead a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As 10 invenções que seus inventores se arrependeram de ter criado. Desde o caso do inventor da dinamite, Alfred Nobel, que se sentiu culpado por ter criado uma arma tão poderosa, até o criador do Pop-up, Ethan Zuckerman, que se arrependeu de ter criado algo que irrita tanto. Acompanhe o vídeo e descubra outras invenções que deixaram seus criadores com remorsos e arrependimentos!

As 10 invenções que seus inventores se arrependeram de ter criado. Desde o caso do inventor da dinamite, Alfred Nobel, que se sentiu culpado por ter criado uma arma tão poderosa, até o criador do Pop-up, Ethan Zuckerman, que se arrependeu de ter criado algo que irrita tanto. Acompanhe o vídeo e descubra outras invenções que deixaram seus criadores com remorsos e arrependimentos!

Historiquement Vôtre réunit 3 personnages qui ont été dépassés par leur invention : Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, médecin et homme politique de la révolution qui a prôné une solution pour adoucir la sentence des condamnés à mort, et a laissé, sans le vouloir, son nom à une machine : la guillotine. Un hommage dont il se serait bien passé. Puis, lui, en revanche reste considéré comme “le père de la bombe H” : Robert Oppenheimer et son invention qui a provoqué des centaines de milliers de morts à Hiroshima et Nagasaki. Et un inventeur du net, une légende d'internet même, qui regrette son invention, qu'on a chaque jour sur nos écrans d'ordinateur, le pop-up, cette petite fenêtre de publicité qui s'ouvre sans qu'on ait rien demandé : Ethan Zuckerman.

Dans Historiquement vôtre, Jean-Luc Lemoine dresse le portrait d'une personnalité contemporaine, en lien avec le sujet du jour. Aujourd'hui, c'est au tour d'Ethan Zuckerman. 

Dans Historiquement vôtre, Jean-Luc Lemoine dresse le portrait d'une personnalité contemporaine, en lien avec le sujet du jour. Aujourd'hui, c'est au tour d'Ethan Zuckerman. 

Das Internet ist aus unserem Alltag nicht mehr wegzudenken. Eigentlich ist es ja unglaublich: Wir alle können uns mit ein paar Klicks weltweit vernetzen, Gleichgesinnte finden und vielleicht sogar die Welt ein bisschen besser machen - theoretisch! Aber in der Praxis gucken wir, überspitzt gesagt, nur Katzenvideos und Werbung. Und ein paar Konzerne machen mit unseren Daten ein Riesen-Geschäft. In der aktuellen Folge ist der US-amerikanische Digitalpionier Ethan Zuckerman zu Gast und spricht über Strategien und Wege, das Internet gemeinwohlorientiert zu nutzen.

Live from ASU California Center at the historic Herald Examiner Building. Tech entrepreneur Nonny de la Peña, author Charlton McIlwain, and internet activist Ethan Zuckerman joined Zócalo and Future Tense to ponder human decision-making's impact on the digital world–and the ways that code, in turn, has impacted humanity. This event was hosted on January 31, 2023 and was moderated by Torie Bosch, editor of "You Are Not Expected to Understand This” Visit https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/ to read our articles and learn about upcoming events. Follow along on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thepublicsquare Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepublicsquare/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/zocalopublicsquare LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/z-calo-public-square

Dan and Ellen talk with Ethan Zuckerman, associate professor of public policy, communication and information at UMass-Amherst. He's also founder of the Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, which is studying how to build alternatives to the commercial internet. And Ethan co-founded a local news initiative with global reach, a blogging community called Global Voices. An alum of the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard and the MIT Media Lab, he is the author of two books. The latest is titled “Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them.” It's a powerful look at the rise of mistrust in institutions, especially media, and how that mistrust is provoking a crisis for representative democracy.  Dan has a Quick Take on Brian McGrory's announcement that he will step down as editor of The Boston Globe to become director of the journalism program at Boston University. Ellen checks out The Daily Catch, a hyperlocal news outlook covering Red Hook, New York.   

Can Russia really disconnect from the rest of the digital world? What is China's Great Firewall? Leading academic, podcaster and all-round internet expert Ethan Zuckerman joins Alan Rusbridger to discuss how countries are creating, censoring and controlling their own digital spaces. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode, Annick van Rinsum, joined by Joost de Graaf from PublicSpaces, speaks with Ethan Zuckerman. Ethan is the founder and director of the Digital Public Infrastructure Initiative at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an associate professor of Public Policy, Information and Communication. They talk about participatory media, online free speech, Elon Musk acquiring twitter, about his book Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them, his ideas about online space, democracy and social change, and his admiration for the Dutch pillarisation system. Do you want to know more about this topic? Join the Public Spaces conference The Time is NOW! on 17th and 18th of may at 10 a.m. till 5 p.m. in Pakhuis de Zwijger.

Amerikanske eksperter i sociale medier undrer sig over Elon Musks udtalelser om "total ytringsfrihed" ovenpå hans køb af Twitter. De ser dog også muligheder for at ryste posen og skabe nye tjenester, som måske vil fungere bedre for os, når via er sociale via vores skærm. Techtopia har ringet til: Jillian York, director for international freedom of expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the author of Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism Ethan Zuckerman, lektor i public policy, communication and information på the University of Massachusetts Links: Jillian York https://jilliancyork.com Ethan Zuckerman https://ethanzuckerman.com/about-me/

When Elon Musk forks over about 44 billion dollars to buy Twitter, he'll get to make the rules about how hundreds of millions of users interact. Ethan Zuckerman, an associate professor of public policy, communication and information at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, tells us why people should be concerned about allowing private corporations and billionaires to control our public communication infrastructure.

Now that Twitter is a Musk mystery, what becomes of, well, everything? Ethan Zuckerman raises even more questions than he answers in a thought-filled hour of conversation with Doc Searls and Simon Phipps on FLOSS Weekly. Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: NewRelic.com/FLOSS kolide.com/floss

Now that Twitter is a Musk mystery, what becomes of, well, everything? Ethan Zuckerman raises even more questions than he answers in a thought-filled hour of conversation with Doc Searls and Simon Phipps on FLOSS Weekly. Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: NewRelic.com/FLOSS kolide.com/floss

Now that Twitter is a Musk mystery, what becomes of, well, everything? Ethan Zuckerman raises even more questions than he answers in a thought-filled hour of conversation with Doc Searls and Simon Phipps on FLOSS Weekly. Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: NewRelic.com/FLOSS kolide.com/floss

Now that Twitter is a Musk mystery, what becomes of, well, everything? Ethan Zuckerman raises even more questions than he answers in a thought-filled hour of conversation with Doc Searls and Simon Phipps on FLOSS Weekly. Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: NewRelic.com/FLOSS kolide.com/floss

L'information est tombée ce lundi 25 avril dans la soirée, Elon Musk va devenir le nouveau propriétaire de Twitter. Les actionnaires de la plateforme ont finalement été convaincu par son offre de 44 milliards de dollars, quand bien même ils avaient décidé de la refuser la semaine dernière. Le rachat devrait être finalisé d'ici la fin de l'année. Mais désormais, la question que tout le monde se pose est de savoir quels changements va bien pouvoir apporter Elon Musk à ce réseau social ? C'est justement ce que je vous propose de voir dans cet épisode. "La place publique numérique où les sujets vitaux pour le futur de l'humanité sont débattus"... voilà comment Elon Musk décrivait Twitter dans le communiqué annonçant son arrivée prochaine à la tête de la plateforme. Un réseau social où je cite "la liberté d'expression est le fondement d'une démocratie qui fonctionne". L'homme le plus riche du monde se dit déterminé je cite à "rendre Twitter meilleur que jamais [en l'améliorant] avec de nouvelles fonctionnalités, en rendant les algorithmes open-source pour accroître la confiance, en venant à bout les 'spamsbots' et en authentifiant tous les humains" fin de citation. Car la position d'Elon Musk est connu de tous depuis bien longtemps, lui qui estime que Twitter va trop loin dans la modération des contenus et prône une plus grande liberté d'expression en ligne. Dans les épisodes de Choses à Savoir Tech consacrés à ce dossier les semaines passées, on a pu évoquer succinctement les changements voulus par Elon Musk. Aujourd'hui, sa feuille de route semble se préciser avec tout d'abord un changement de modération. Le milliardaire préconise je cite de "laisser le tweet exister en cas de doute" sur un contenu. Il est aussi opposé aux bannissements permanents, comme celui de l'ancien président américain Donald Trump début 2021. Pour lui, la meilleure solution reste l'exclusion temporaire. Autre projet évoqué, l'ajout d'une fonction pour éditer un tweet après sa publication, ce à quoi les dirigeants de Twitter s'étaient toujours opposé par le passé pour d'après eux préserver la spontanéité et l'intégrité de la plateforme face à la désinformation. Autre dossier d'importance, la lutte contre les arnaques et les spams via l'intermédiaire des "spamsbots", ces comptes automatisés qui font la promotion d'escroqueries, très actifs notamment dans le milieu des cryptomonnaies. Pour finir, en mettant la main sur Twitter, Elon Musk s'offre une arme de communication dévastatrice, capable d'influencer le plus grand nombre. Également, le rachat de Twitter par Elon Musk signifie désormais je cite que "deux milliardaires contrôleront bientôt quatre des principales plateformes sociales de la planète" d'après le spécialiste des réseaux sociaux Ethan Zuckerman. Je cite à nouveau, "Mark Zuckerberg a un droit de veto sur une grande partie des décisions de Facebook, WhatsApp et Instagram. Elon Musk devrait probablement obtenir un pouvoir similaire chez Twitter", fin de citation, lui laissant le champ libre pour remodeler la plateforme à son goût. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

L'information est tombée ce lundi 25 avril dans la soirée, Elon Musk va devenir le nouveau propriétaire de Twitter. Les actionnaires de la plateforme ont finalement été convaincu par son offre de 44 milliards de dollars, quand bien même ils avaient décidé de la refuser la semaine dernière. Le rachat devrait être finalisé d'ici la fin de l'année. Mais désormais, la question que tout le monde se pose est de savoir quels changements va bien pouvoir apporter Elon Musk à ce réseau social ? C'est justement ce que je vous propose de voir dans cet épisode."La place publique numérique où les sujets vitaux pour le futur de l'humanité sont débattus"... voilà comment Elon Musk décrivait Twitter dans le communiqué annonçant son arrivée prochaine à la tête de la plateforme. Un réseau social où je cite "la liberté d'expression est le fondement d'une démocratie qui fonctionne". L'homme le plus riche du monde se dit déterminé je cite à "rendre Twitter meilleur que jamais [en l'améliorant] avec de nouvelles fonctionnalités, en rendant les algorithmes open-source pour accroître la confiance, en venant à bout les 'spamsbots' et en authentifiant tous les humains" fin de citation. Car la position d'Elon Musk est connu de tous depuis bien longtemps, lui qui estime que Twitter va trop loin dans la modération des contenus et prône une plus grande liberté d'expression en ligne.Dans les épisodes de Choses à Savoir Tech consacrés à ce dossier les semaines passées, on a pu évoquer succinctement les changements voulus par Elon Musk. Aujourd'hui, sa feuille de route semble se préciser avec tout d'abord un changement de modération. Le milliardaire préconise je cite de "laisser le tweet exister en cas de doute" sur un contenu. Il est aussi opposé aux bannissements permanents, comme celui de l'ancien président américain Donald Trump début 2021. Pour lui, la meilleure solution reste l'exclusion temporaire. Autre projet évoqué, l'ajout d'une fonction pour éditer un tweet après sa publication, ce à quoi les dirigeants de Twitter s'étaient toujours opposé par le passé pour d'après eux préserver la spontanéité et l'intégrité de la plateforme face à la désinformation. Autre dossier d'importance, la lutte contre les arnaques et les spams via l'intermédiaire des "spamsbots", ces comptes automatisés qui font la promotion d'escroqueries, très actifs notamment dans le milieu des cryptomonnaies.Pour finir, en mettant la main sur Twitter, Elon Musk s'offre une arme de communication dévastatrice, capable d'influencer le plus grand nombre. Également, le rachat de Twitter par Elon Musk signifie désormais je cite que "deux milliardaires contrôleront bientôt quatre des principales plateformes sociales de la planète" d'après le spécialiste des réseaux sociaux Ethan Zuckerman. Je cite à nouveau, "Mark Zuckerberg a un droit de veto sur une grande partie des décisions de Facebook, WhatsApp et Instagram. Elon Musk devrait probablement obtenir un pouvoir similaire chez Twitter", fin de citation, lui laissant le champ libre pour remodeler la plateforme à son goût. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Brandon Silverman developed a news analytics tool called Crowdtangle that was so good at tracking popular stories on Facebook that the company acquired it. Today on Reimagining the Internet, Brandon tells us how he’s working to regulate his former employer. Transcript Ethan Zuckerman: Hey, everybody. Welcome back to Reimagining The Internet. I remain Ethan Zuckerman.… Continue reading Brandon Silverman, ex-Crowdtangle/Facebook: “legislation is coming”

Our guest from Season 2, Ethan Zuckerman, has his own podcast: Reimagining the Internet. He had EFF's Jillian York as a guest on his show, and we thought you'd like to have a listen to it.

Does artificial intelligence entrench inequality? Are the algorithms that shape our lives sexist, racist and ableist? And should we be trying just to fix the computers, or also the society that trains them? Leading academic, podcaster and all-round internet expert Ethan Zuckerman joins Sarah Collins to address these questions. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ethan Zuckerman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in tech, his book "Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them" and how he's working to build healthy social media platforms.

Ethan Zuckerman is a Professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (my alma mater), where he teaches Public Policy, Communication, and Information. His work focuses on designing and advocating for versions of social media that have positive social and civic impacts. Which means moving beyond existing models of funding and governance. On the show, Ethan talks about the Metaverse, trust, Facebook vs Apple, making the Metaverse a safe space, governance of online spaces, data ownership, what the biggest piece missing from the Metaverse conversation is, Omar Wasow and Black Planet, and technical barriers when it comes to storytelling access on various platforms. Ethan founded the Institute for Digital Public Infrastructure to explore the ideas previously mentioned. It's a research group studying and building alternatives to the existing commercial internet. Previously Ethan was at the MIT Media Lab working at the Center for Civic Media, researching the relationship between media and social change, and building tools to study how ideas spread in the media, and how citizens can better participate in their civic lives. He is also the inventor of pop-up windows. Ethan has many hats but the one that he wears the most is that of a blogger/writer. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, CNN, Wired and others. He also has a Ted Talk about listening to global voices. Over the years, he's been a tech startup guy (with Tripod.com), a non-profit founder (Geekcorps.org) a peace Corp for geeks, transferring tech skills from geeks in developed nations to geeks in emerging nations, especially entrepreneurial geeks who are building small businesses. He is also the Co-founder of Globalvoices.org which is a global blogging community. He's has written two books: Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them and Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection, both published through W.W. Norton. And is an alumnus of the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard, the MIT Media Lab and Comparative Media Studies at MIT, Geekcorps, and Tripod. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/DreamNation/support

With Congress weighing a host of plans to curb the social-media giant, Ethan Zuckerman and his colleagues are laying the technological foundation of a whole new social-media universe. (Originally recorded in May 2021.)

The concept of truth has been disrupted by misinformation and fabricated realities. In this episode, Ethan Zuckerman − a professor of public policy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and the author of Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them, joins host Bill Coppel − Managing Director & Chief Client Growth Officer at First Clearing − to explore what this means for financial advisors. In this episode, you'll hear: How the concept of trust has evolved over time What the rising tide of misinformation and distrust means for the business of advice Ways to establish meaningful trust amid the uncertainty generated by conflicting information About Ethan Zuckerman Ethan Zuckerman is an educator, public speaker, and prolific writer. He's an associate professor of public policy, communication and information at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where he founded the Initiative on Digital Public Infrastructure, a research group that's studying and building alternatives to the existing commercial internet. He has led the Center for Civic Media at the MIT Media Lab, and is an alum of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard. In addition to writing books and academic articles, Ethan is a frequent contributor on media outlets such as The Atlantic, WIRED, and CNN. Ways to Connect Book: Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them Website: https://ethanzuckerman.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethan-zuckerman-16a4618b

In this episode, we talk to Ethan Zuckerman, associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he teaches public policy, communication, and information. We discuss his paper "Digital Health Communication and Global Public Influence: A Study of the Ebola Epidemic" which was published in the Journal of Health Communication in 2017. His co-authors on this paper include technical and visualization experts (Hal Roberts and Sands Alden Fish II), a global public health expert (Brittany Seymour), and expert in education policy (Emily Robinson). Ethan talks about creating Media Cloud--an open-source platform for media analysis that tracks millions of stories published online--over the course of two decades and the "fearsome process" of scaling it up. He also discussed with us being an unconventional "punk-rock" academic and advice to "scratch your deep itch" when it comes to choosing which research directions to pursue. Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10810730.2016.1209598

This episode shares a recorded talk from the 2021 Reimagine the Internet conference, a virtual conference co-hosted by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and the soon-to-be-launched Initiative on Digital Public Infrastructure at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In six sessions over five days, there will be more than a dozen speakers whose work hints at what the internet could become over the next decade. Knight Institute Visiting Research Scholar Ethan Zuckerman will speak about digital public infrastructure and his work to build social media spaces that are self-governing and civically focused.

Facebook and Google have taken charge of the way we communicate online. Are we stuck with them?

Ethan Zuckerman is an associate professor of public policy, communication and information at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He's the founder of Digital Public Infrastructure, a research group that is studying and building alternatives to the existing commercial internet, and the author of Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them. Ethan spoke with Ryan Merkley, Aspen's Commission on Information Disorder project director, on how a decline in trust can affect our information ecosystem. This session is part of a series of expert briefings on mis and disinformation hosted by the Aspen Institute in tandem with our Commission on Information Disorder to help make sense of the various facets of the information crisis. They are designed as a resource for the commissioners and the broader public. To learn more about Aspen Digital's Commission on Information Disorder, visit www.AspenInfoCommission.org Follow us on Twitter and Facebook @AspenDigital.

Today's episode features a conversation hosted recently by the Digital Public Library of America, DPLA. The DPLA brings together many collections of America's libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world on a shared platform.  This DPLA Book Talk features a conversation on trust and the crisis faced by our institutions; the promise of the movements rising to challenge them; and the obstacles we must confront if we are to rebuild civic life and create meaningful change.  It includes Ethan Zuckerman, Katherine Maher, and Alberto Ibargüen. Ethan Zuckerman is an associate professor of public policy, communication and information at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and is founder of the Institute for Digital Public Infrastructure, a research group that is studying and building alternatives to the existing commercial internet. He's the author of two books: Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them and Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection. Mistrust, published in November 2020, looks at how and why Americans are losing faith in our institutions and how we can harness the methods of successful social movements to both transform and replace them, and serves as the basis for today's discussion. Katherine Maher was the CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation until this spring, when she stepped down after a long and successful tenure. The foundation operates Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects. She is a longtime advocate for free and open societies, and has worked around the world leading the integration of technology and innovation in human rights, good governance, and international development. Katherine has worked with UNICEF, the National Democratic Institute, the World Bank, and Access Now on programs supporting technologies for democratic participation, civic engagement, and open government.  Alberto Ibargüen, who moderates the discussion, is president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. He is the former publisher of The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald and during his tenure, The Miami Herald won three Pulitzer Prizes and El Nuevo Herald won Spain's Ortega y Gasset Prize for excellence in journalism.

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A president bound over to the Senate for impeachment yet who said not a word about it in his latest video. What really sent President Donald Trump ballistic in the words of a senior aide quoted by Politico was the decision by Twitter to block his output permanently. ETHAN ZUCKERMAN is associate professor of public policy and information at U Mass Amherst and he has studied social media since it was in diapers (nappies to you). What does it mean to “deplatform” a president, and where do his followers go from here?

Our host Ethan Zuckerman introduces iDPI's new podcast, talking about the need to create online spaces in the public interest instead of a corporate profit motive. Join us as we interview activists, scholars, journalists, and entrepreneurs reimagining the internet as we know it today.

After years of being shut off to the world -- Myanmar is opening itself up. Not just across physical borders, but also the digital. What happens when the vast majority of a population suddenly has access to a cell phone, not to mention Facebook? How is technology manifesting itself in the media, in the economy and in the education of a population eager to use the tools it suddenly has access to? What can Myanmar teach the rest of the world about the opportunities that arise, and potential pitfalls, when a wave of new technology crashes down? Joining the discussion is David Madden from non-profit Internews and the founder of the brand-new Phandeeyar: Myanmar Innovation Lab; Aye Moah, founder of Silicon Valley-based startup Baydin (in photo); and Ethan Zuckerman director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT.