Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. The 2011 Vancouver Human Rights Lecture is presented by the Laurier Institution, Yahoo!, UBC Continuing Studies and CBC Radio One. Ethan Zuckerman is director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT, and a principal research scientist at the MIT Media Lab. His research focuses on the distribution of attention in mainstream and new media, the use of technology for international development, and the use of new media technologies by activists.With Rebecca MacKinnon, Zuckerman co-founded international blogging community Global Voices. Global Voices showcases news and opinions from citizen media in over 150 nations and thirty languages, publishing editions in twenty languages. Through Global Voices and through the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, where he served as a researcher and fellow for eight years, Zuckerman is active in efforts to promote freedom of expression and fight censorship in online spaces. In 2000, Zuckerman founded Geekcorps, a technology volunteer corps that sends 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. He blogs at http://ethanzuckerman.com/blog. He received his bachelor’s degree from Williams College, and, as a Fulbright scholar, studied at the University of Ghana at Legon.
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Zuckerman, E. (2014). New media, new civics? Policy & Internet, 6(2), 151-168. doi:10.1002/1944-2866.POI360. [Link]
Zuckerman, E. (2012). A small world after all? The Wilson Quarterly (1976-), 36(2), 44-47. [Link]
Zuckerman, E. (2010). International reporting in the age of participatory media. Daedalus, 139(2), 66-75. doi:10.1162/daed.2010.139.2.66. [Link]
Zuckerman, E. (2008; 2007). Meet the bridgebloggers. Public Choice, 134(1/2), 47-65. doi:10.1007/s11127-007-9200-y. [Link]
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