Ethan Zuckerman is a voice that you need to know. He’s a pioneer for the use of media as a tool for social change, for cultivating international development with technology, and for the activation of new media technologies by activists. Ethan is uncommonly insightful about the currents and trends of our society. In this conversation he helps us understand the shape of our public discourse, and relates it to the world of today and tomorrow.

Show Notes:

• Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows - Sonder (05:00)
• Book: Rewire (08:00)
• MIT Media Lab Center for Civic Media (12:00)
  • Nathan Matias (Cornell)
  • Catherine D'Ignazio (MIT)
  • Molly Sauter (University of Maryland)
• The Good Citizen Michael Schudson  (16:00)
• The Social Machine Judith Donath (16:20)
• Rachel Barenplat: the velveteen rabbi (18:40)
• QAnon (22:30)
• Global voices  (28:40)
• Small communities doing digital connection well (29:50)
  • Michael Wood Lewis - Front Porch Forum
  • Esra'a Al Shafei
  • Sara Lomax-Reese - WURD Radio
• Origins episode with Richard Bartlett and Microsolidarity (33:45)
• The slow professor by Maggie Berg and Barbara Seeber (35:00)
• Mistrust (37:00)
• Twilight of the elites Chris Hayes (38:30)
• Black lives matter and defund the police (40:30)
• Problem with a zero sum view (44:30)
• The sum of us by Heath McGhee (47:45)
• Lightning round (50:40):
  • Book: The Creation of the Media by Paul Starr
  • Passion: Music and ethnomusicology
  • Heart sing: Traveling (blog) and board games
  • Screwed up: Relationship
    • Joke answer: invented the pop-up ad
• Find guest online:
  • Twitter: @EthanZ
  • https://ethanzuckerman.com/
• 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series  
  • Ethan’s playlist