Ethan Zuckerman

For countries such as Kenya to emerge as economic powerhouses, they need better infrastructure: roads, ports, smart grids and power plants. Infrastructure is expensive, and takes a long time to build. In the meantime, hackers are building 'grassroots infrastructure,' using the mobile-phone system to build solutions that are ready for market. ”

Creativity is an import-export business. ”

Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance. ”

It's fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people as well. ”

I study the ways new media shapes people's perceptions of the world. ”

When you look at the 'New York Times,' you look at other elite media, what you largely get are pictures of very wealthy nations and the nations we've invaded. ”

Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in gun control. My research on media attention suggests these spikes are extremely short-lived, and that they may be decreasing in intensity. ”

The U.S. media have done a shameful job of reporting on the Arab world. ”