Ethan Zuckerman is the recently-announced director of the MIT Center for Civic Media

Center for Civic Media

The MIT Center for Civic Media is a research and practical center that develops and implements tools that support political action and "the information needs of [civic] communities". Its mission reads in part:...

, officially starting in September 2011.

Zuckerman was one of the first staff members of Tripod.com

Tripod.com

Tripod.com is a web hosting service owned by Lycos. Originally aiming its services to college students and young adults, it was one of several sites trying to build online communities during the dot-com bubble...

, one of the first successful "dot com" enterprises, and later founder of Geekcorps

Geekcorps

Geekcorps is a non-profit organization that sends people with technical skills to developing countries to assist in computer infrastructure development...

 and Global Voices Online

Global Voices Online

Global Voices Online is an international network of bloggers and citizen journalists that follow, report, and summarizes what is going on in the blogosphere in every corner of the world...

. Ethan has been a senior researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, where he is also a long-time fellow. His work at the Berkman Center has included research into global media attention, as well as the co-founding of Global Voices

Global Voices

The phrase Global Voices might refer to:* Global Voices Online, a blog with more than 100 contributors that reports on what is going on in the blogospheres of every corner of world...

 in collaboration with Rebecca MacKinnon

Rebecca MacKinnon

Rebecca MacKinnon is a former CNN journalist who headed the CNN bureaus in Beijing and later in Tokyo, before leaving television to become a blogger and co-founder of Global Voices Online. She is on the Board of Directors of the Global Network Initiative and the Committee to Protect Journalists,...

. For some years he was also a contributing writer for Worldchanging.com

Worldchanging

Worldchanging is an American non-profit online magazine and blog about sustainability and social innovation. At 19/09/2011, it was taken over by Architecture for Humanity....

, where he served as president of the board of directors.

In January 2007, he joined the inaugural Wikimedia Foundation

Wikimedia Foundation

Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is an American non-profit charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, and organized under the laws of the state of Florida, where it was initially based...

 Advisory Board.

He is a graduate of Williams College

Williams College

Williams College is a private liberal arts college located in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States. It was established in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams. Originally a men's college, Williams became co-educational in 1970. Fraternities were also phased out during this...

, spent a year in Accra

Accra

Accra is the capital and largest city of Ghana, with an urban population of 1,658,937 according to the 2000 census. Accra is also the capital of the Greater Accra Region and of the Accra Metropolitan District, with which it is coterminous...

, Ghana

Ghana

Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...

 on a Fulbright scholarship, and currently resides in Lanesborough, Massachusetts

Lanesborough, Massachusetts

Lanesborough is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 2,990 at the 2000 census.-History:...

 with his wife Rachel Barenblat

Rachel Barenblat

Rachel Barenblat, the "Velveteen Rabbi," is an American poet and blogger who was ordained as a rabbi in January, 2011.Born in San Antonio, Texas in 1975 to Marvin and Liana Barenblat, Rachel moved to New England in 1992 to attend Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts...

.

Works by Zuckerman

• "Using the Internet to Examine Patterns of Foreign Coverage." Neiman Reports, Fall 2004.
• Hal Roberts, Ethan Zuckerman, and John Palfrey. 2007 Circumvention Landscape Report: Methods, Uses, and Tools. Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, March 2009
• "Innovating From Constraint in the Developing World." Harvard Business Review, January 23, 2009
• "Web 2.0 tools for development: simple tools for smart people." Participatory Learning and Action, Volume 59, Number 1, June 2009
• "Citizen Media and the Kenyan Electoral Crisis." In: Stuart Allan. Citizen journalism: global perspectives. Peter Lang, 2009
• "Decentralizing the Mobile Phone:A Second ICT4D Revolution?" Information Technologies & International Development, Volume 6, SE, Special Edition 2010
• "International reporting in the age of participatory media." Daedalus, Spring 2010, Vol. 139, No. 2.
• "Internet Freedom: Beyond Circumvention." In: The next digital decade : essays on the future of the internet. Washington D.C. : TechFreedom, 2010.
• "The First Twitter Revolution?" Foreign Policy, January 14, 2011
• Hal Roberts, Ethan Zuckerman and John Palfrey. 2011 Circumvention Tool Evaluation. Berkman Center, 2011

About Zuckerman

• Gregory T. Huang. "Interview: Over the Border." The New Scientist, Volume 193, Issue 2587, 20 January 2007

External links

• My Heart's in Accra (Ethan Zuckerman's blog)
• Bio - Berkman Center for Internet & Society
• Global Voices Online
• Interview with Zuckerman on Worldchanging.com
• Video (with mp3 available) of discussion about cyber-war and social media with Zuckerman and Evgeny Morozov
  Evgeny Morozov
  Evgeny Morozov, born 1984 in Soligorsk, Belarus, is a writer and researcher who studies political and social implications of technology.-Life:...
  
   on Bloggingheads.tv
  Bloggingheads.tv
  Bloggingheads.tv is a political, world events, philosophy, and science video blog discussion site in which the participants take part in an active back and forth conversation via webcam which is then broadcast online to viewers...
  
  

See also

• Media Cloud
  Media Cloud
  Media Cloud is an open-source content analysis tool that aims to map news media coverage of current events. It "performs five basic functions -- media definition, crawling, text extraction, word vectoring, and analysis." It "tracks hundreds of newspapers and thousands of Web sites and blogs, and...
  
  , co-developed by Zuckerman