Ethan Zuckerman at Worcester World Affairs Council

Ethan Zuckerman is author of Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them (W.W. Norton, 2021), and associate professor of public policy, communication, and information at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is also director of the UMass Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, focused on reimagining the Internet as a tool for civic engagement. His research focuses on civic media, online community governance, digital public infrastructure, quantitative studies of media attention, technology, and social change. Before coming to UMass, Zuckerman was at MIT, where he served as director of the Center for Civic Media and as associate professor of practice in media arts and sciences at the MIT Media Lab. His research focuses on the use of media as a tool for social change, the role of technology in international development, and the use of new media technologies by activists. He is also author of Rewire: Digital…