1. Ethan Zuckerman was born on January 4,1973 and is an American media scholar, blogger, and Internet activist.
13 Facts About Ethan Zuckerman
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Ethan Zuckerman was the director of the MIT Center for Civic Media, and Associate Professor of the Practice in Media Arts and Sciences at MIT until May 2020, and the author of the 2013 book Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection, which won the Zocalo Book Prize.
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Ethan Zuckerman then spent a year on a Fulbright scholarship at the University of Legon, Ghana and the National Theatre of Ghana in Accra, where he studied ethnomusicology and percussion.
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Ethan Zuckerman was one of the first staff members of Tripod.
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Ethan Zuckerman's solution was to open a new dedicated window with only the ad in it.
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Ethan Zuckerman won the MIT Technology Review "Technology in the Service of Humanity" award in 2002 for his work on Geekcorps.
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Ethan Zuckerman has been a senior researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, where he is a long-time fellow.
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Ethan Zuckerman was an Open Society Global Board member, and sits on the board of directors of Ushahidi, Global Voices, and the Ghanaian journalism training nonprofit, PenPlusBytes.
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Ethan Zuckerman was interviewed in the 2015 web documentary about internet privacy, Do Not Track.
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On July 1,2016, Ethan Zuckerman was appointed Associate Professor of the Practice in Media Arts and Sciences at MIT.
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Ethan Zuckerman resigned from his position as director of the MIT Center for Civic Media, in protest of the Media Lab's involvement with Epstein.
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Ethan Zuckerman joined the faculty of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in April 2020.
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Ethan Zuckerman proposed to use a piece of software similar to Unfollow Everything to evaluate user response to having control of their social media feeds.