Ethan Zuckerman

Don't Dismiss 'Slacktivists' -- Give Them The Tools To Do More

Bob McKinnon | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Unreasonable Institute, South by Southwest, Social Impact, Slactivism, Schools of Visual Arts, Activism, Trayvon Martin, The Feast, Sxsw, Social Change, kony2012, Homeless Hotspots, Slacktivism, change.org, Mark Randall, School of Visual Arts, Activists, Steven Heller, SVA Impact!, Ethan Zuckerman, Invisible Children, Foodstalk, Slactivist, Kaflab, Kony 2012, Impact News
Bob McKinnon

How does social change happen - with marches or clicks? To anyone who grew up in the 60's this seems like an absurd, if not offensive question. But t...

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Arab Spring -- and the Long Winter Ahead

Alison Craiglow Hockenberry | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Internet-Revolution, Google, Social Media, Arab Spring, Internet Freedom, Ashoka Changemakers, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Freedom of Expression, Citizen Journalism, Ethan Zuckerman, Center for Civic Media, Citizen Media, Impact News
Alison Craiglow Hockenberry

While we celebrate the fact that two billion people now have access to the Internet's opportunities for speaking out, five billion others are still waiting for their chance to be heard.

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Messy Digital Diplomacy

Andrew Rosen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google, Pakistan Flooding, 21st Century Statecraft, National Security, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Ethan Zuckerman, Alec Ross, Jared Cohen, Technology News
Andrew Rosen

To date, the Web has not proven to be a hospitable ground for the State Department's efforts to bring the entrepreneurial culture of Silicon Valley and Web 2.0 to the outdated world of U.S. diplomacy.

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Citizen Media: Drown Out the Noise

Ruthie Ackerman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Saki G, Kate Thomas, Guinea, Myles Estey, Global Voices, Democracy, Liberia, David Sasaki, Hyperlocal, Shane Smith, Journalism, Participatory Journalism, Chimamanda Adichie, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Ceasefire Liberia, Shelby Grossman, Ethan Zuckerman, Glenna Gordon, Vice, Citizen Media, World News
Ruthie Ackerman

What makes (the best of) today's journalism different is that citizen journalists the world over have the opportunity to share their hyperlocal, interactive, personal portrayals of their communities.

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