Data & Society advisor Ethan Zuckerman is associate professor of public policy, information and communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and director of the Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure. His research focuses on alternative business and governance models for the internet. He is the author of Mistrust: How Losing Trust in Institutions Provides Tools to Transform Them (2021) and Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection (2013). Previously, Zuckerman directed the Center for Civic Media at MIT and taught at the MIT Media Lab.
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SSIRAll around the world, media outlets are learning that some funders are uncomfortable with supporting journalism merely as a “public good.” They want to see proof of impact. In this article, D&S advisor Ethan Zuckerman an... Read on SSIRNovember 2015 -
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The ConversationD&S advisor Ethan Zuckerman gives a speech on the MIT Media Lab's 30th anniversary praising the numerous innovations that have come from the lab but puts forth the important question of whether or not innovators can build p... Read on The ConversationOctober 2015 -
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The AtlanticIn this essay, Data & Society advisor Ethan Zuckerman explains his belief that the "fallen state of our Internet is a direct, if unintentional, consequence of choosing advertising as the default model to support online cont... Read on The AtlanticAugust 2014