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AIxDemocracy: What are the politics of AI? - Ethan Zuckerman
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Ethan Zuckerman on the politics of the public sphere, and how embedding past behaviors in AI may give a conservative bias to an AI age
on Apr 24
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Science on Screen: Don't Look Up - Ethan Zuckerman
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Don't Look Up anticipates the stupidity of our political moment, but misfires on the power of authenticity. Enjoy the apocalypse.
on Apr 4
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"Post-post-truth", or how the SignalGate story is forking reality - Ethan Zuckerman
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Some news stories have the power to divide reality in two, based on what you - and the people you listen to - choose to believe.
on Mar 28
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Jay Rosen and Taylor Owen: Can journalism survive Trump? Can democracy? - Ethan Zuckerman
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Journalism scholars Jay Rosen and Taylor Owen explore how journalists can respond to a US president who continually denies reality.
on Mar 13
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How can nations fight off disinformation from foreign actors? It helps to spend a century worried about an invasion over your shared border.
on Mar 13
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Taylor Owen: Canadians now see the US as the most serious disinfo threat - Ethan Zuckerman
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Canada’s information environment, heading into 2025 elections, is a highly contested space with low trust and a new source of disinfo: the US
on Mar 13
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Freedom Interrupted: Electoral Interference - Ethan Zuckerman
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Disinformation from Russia is infiltrating elections in Germany, Romania and Moldovan… and increasingly comes from the US.
on Mar 13
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He's not a neoliberal, "He's a thug" - Stiglitz on Trump, in Montreal - Ethan Zuckerman
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Joe Stiglitz is a bright guy. He won the Nobel for Economics in 2001 for his work on markets where information is asymmetric. He’s the former chief economist of the World Bank, the former chairman of the US council of economic advisers, and the author of tons of books. Tonight, he’s talking...
on Mar 13
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Liz Pelly at UMass: Spotify, the Mood Machine - Ethan Zuckerman
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The UMass Responsible Tech Coalition hosted journalist, editor and musician Liz Pelly to talk about her new book, “Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist”. She’s introduced by my friend and colleague Mike Sugarman, who has interviewed her for our podcast...
on Feb 20
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Yahoo!, Moniker: why is Mowjcamp.com still offline 6 weeks after hack attack? - Ethan Zuckerman
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UPDATE. Mowjcamp.com is back up! Friends at EFF were able to broker a conversation between Yahoo, Moniker, Melbourne IT and Access Now. The situation is complicated, and I’m still trying to understand the details of the resolution, but it’s fantastic news that the site is back up. Special thanks...
on Feb 1
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Those White Plastic Chairs - The Monobloc and the Context-Free Object - Ethan Zuckerman
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Ian Frazier, writing about the return of seals to the waters that surround New York City, offers this poetic observation about a white plastic chair: On a higher part of the beach, a single patio chair of molded white plastic commanded a wide view. Someone might have put it there to enjoy a beer...
on Jan 25
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A MASSIVE part of Global Voices is the Rising Voices program led by Eddie Avila. As he puts it, Rising Voice is about “helping communities meet their self-determined needs” – often this means preserving languages and ensuring they thrive in digital spaces. 20 language activists take the stage in...
on Dec 7
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Mastodon is big in Japan. The reason why is... uncomfortable - Ethan Zuckerman
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Remember Mastodon? In April 2017, there was a wave of excitement about Mastodon, a federated social network begun in October 2016 by Eugen Rochko, a 24-year old German software engineer, as an alternative to Twitter. Recent news about CloudFlare’s decision to stop providing services to the Daily...
on Nov 16
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Danielle Allen at UMass Amherst on "How to be a Confident Pluralist" - Ethan Zuckerman
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Scholar and political activist Danielle Allen believes democracy can be saved through confident pluralism. What's that?
on Oct 28
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What if our nation is not built for climate change? - Ethan Zuckerman
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Two powerful hurricanes in two weeks suggest that we need to rethink where Americans live in the face of rapid climate change.
on Oct 10
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Road trip: The Company Town and the Corn Fields - Ethan Zuckerman
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Columbus, Indiana is a gorgeous company town. But should city planning rely on the good graces of enlightened billionaires?
on Aug 29
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Roadtrip: A tale of two cities - Ethan Zuckerman
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Toledo, the glass city, is ringed with parks, filled with museums, bars and art. Gary, the home of US Steel, faces a tougher future.
on Aug 24
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Roadtrip: Buried, with dignity, in Elmira - Ethan Zuckerman
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Elmira, NY, is a palimsest of history, nowhere more so that John Jones's farmhouse, across the street from the Confederate graveyard.
on Aug 11
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By the numbers: what statistics can and can't tell you about "undervalued" cities - Ethan Zuckerman
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Demographic information tells us a lot about small cities, but we need to know their history to understand their futures.
on Aug 6
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Road trip! Driving by data set - Ethan Zuckerman
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What are the most undervalued cities in America? My 2024 summer roadtrip will visit cities like Utica, NY and Decatur, IL to see what's there
on Jul 31
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Zuckerman vs. Meta Platforms - Ethan Zuckerman
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On Wednesday morning, the amazing and brilliant lawyers at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University (K1A) – primarily Ramya Krishnan and Alex Abdo – filed a lawsuit on my behalf: Zuckerman vs. Meta Platforms. This is a federal lawsuit, filed in the northern district of...
on May 2, 2024
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Twitter's New Business Model: Russian Disinfo - Ethan Zuckerman
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I’m at an event today at UMass Amherst put together by colleagues to launch the new initiative, GloTech, which focuses on perspectives on technology and media from the Global Majority. I’m thrilled to be a senior fellow with GloTech and to lend a hand today with moderating a panel on elections...
on Apr 19, 2024
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Pablo Boczkowski on the crisis in the "mental health capital of the world" - Ethan Zuckerman
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I’m in Paris this week – spring break for UMass – visiting my second-favorite university, SciencesPo. I’ve taken on a new responsibility with SciencesPo, with a new initiative –
on Mar 21, 2024