Ethan Zuckerman

Former Media Lab Professor Ethan Zuckerman speaks with The New York Times about the future of social media.

Donald Trump and the coronavirus are all-consuming topics. What will happen to the rest of the world’s issues?

Among other experts, Ethan Zuckerman reminisces about human-curated web directories and the mule-powered web browser.

The University of South Carolina profiles its alum Blakeley Payne, now a master’s student in the Personal Robots group.

Civic Media head Ethan Zuckerman and others discuss how increasing team diversity can improve outcomes.

Ethan Zuckerman and other experts contextualize the real risks of the mobile internet.

What would social media look like if it served the public interest?

Ethan Zuckerman speaks at a gathering of Senators and Representatives who came to MIT for an Aspen Institute event in May, 2019.

Ethan Zuckerman reflects on a year of research with collaborators to determine how the French media landscape differs from that of the US.

What are the fundamental questions that need to be answered within the next decade so that humanity and technology can grow side by side?

Researchers detail a study's results to help determine how successfully newsrooms in five countries covered the shootings in New Zealand.

Public talk outlines ambitious plans to make his nation a hub for technology and innovation.

Establishing—and rewarding—provenance of stories that start with investigative journalism could shift the field for original reporting.

Social media often goes very wrong. Making it right requires a vision for how social media can help, not harm, society.

A conversation with Ethan Zuckerman, media scholar and inventor of the pop-up ad, on the original sin of advertising and the web’s lost deca

Helping readers slow down, ask questions, and find reasoned opposing views may foster civil discourse online

…We may have helped create the AI monster here in the Hub, but it turns out we’re also the ones fighting to keep it on a leash, with a Just…

With Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple dominating their respective online markets, we plebeians visit fewer sites than we used to an…

“A public social media platform would have the civic mission of providing us a diverse and global view of the world.”

There’s no "silver-bullet technical solution" to the challenges in decentralizing the web.

Director of the MIT Center for Civic Media Ethan Zuckerman talks about activism, technology and the future of the digital ecosystem.

Our winners reflect the hopes that led to the award in the first place. Drs Hanna-Attisha and Edwards are scientists who became activists

I suspect that both the left and the right are overfocusing on fake news. Preliminary analysis conducted by the Media Cloud team at MIT and…

Interview with Joi Ito about the first-ever Disobedience Award

Intisar Rabb and Manal Omar in conversation with Center for Civic Media Director Ethan Zuckerman.