#KeepGVStrong: Global Voices advocates for a connected world at a dark time| Ethan Zuckerman
For twenty years, Global Voices has connected writers and translators around the world. That work is harder - and more important - that ever.| Ethan Zuckerman
No better way to prepare for my next road trip than indexing the many blog posts from trips taken from 2022 - 2024....| Ethan Zuckerman
Every small town has a Chinese restaurant. But when you see a Nepali or a Gambian restaurant, it's a clue about the local community.| Ethan Zuckerman
The statistically improbable restaurant is the unexpected awesome eatery, revealing something about the local population. Find them with data!| Ethan Zuckerman
Ethan Zuckerman on the politics of the public sphere, and how embedding past behaviors in AI may give a conservative bias to an AI age| Ethan Zuckerman
Don't Look Up anticipates the stupidity of our political moment, but misfires on the power of authenticity. Enjoy the apocalypse.| Ethan Zuckerman
Some news stories have the power to divide reality in two, based on what you - and the people you listen to - choose to believe.| Ethan Zuckerman
Jay Rosen and Taylor Owen close out the first day of “Attention: Freedom, Interrupted”, in a live taping of a podcast (Machines Like Us) for the Globe and Mail. The topic is the evolution and collapse of journalism in democratic societies… and it would hard to imagine a better pair of conversants for this topic.… Read More »Jay Rosen and Taylor Owen: Can journalism survive Trump? Can democracy? The post Jay Rosen and Taylor Owen: Can journalism survive Trump? Can democracy? appeared...| Ethan Zuckerman
(Ongoing coverage of Attention: Freedom, Interrupted at McGill University in Montreal. Liveblog – I will get things wrong – feel free to correct me if I have misrepresented you.) How does a nation become resilient to foreign election interference? Atte Jääskeläinen, director of Finnish foundation Sitra, argues that it’s part of Finland’s national character. Finland… Read More »Focus on the player, not the puck: Finnish approaches to combatting electoral interference The post Fo...| Ethan Zuckerman
Taylor Owen, one of our hosts at “Attention: Freedom, Interrupted”, offers a brief and powerful talk on the Information ecosystem leading to the 45th Canadian federal election. He references a commission led by Justice Hogue which investigated foreign interference – particularly from China, India and Russia – in Canadian elections. Justice Hogue came to the… Read More »Taylor Owen: Canadians now see the US as the most serious disinfo threat The post Taylor Owen: Canadians now see ...| Ethan Zuckerman
I’m at Attention: Freedom Interrupted, a conference at McGill University this week, an international conversation about information and democracy that brings together scholars, activists and policymakers from the US, Canada and around the world. It’s a timely conversation – the US and Canada seem to be descending into a trade war and Canadians are responding… Read More »Freedom Interrupted: Electoral Interference The post Freedom Interrupted: Electoral Interference appeared first on...| Ethan Zuckerman
America's legacy cities are shrinking, but they are as vital as our national parks. And they have much better food.| Ethan Zuckerman
How big is YouTube? It's not easy to find out, but we did two years of research and figured out how...| Ethan Zuckerman