Podcasts Culture Point of Inquiry Ethan Zuckerman - Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection

Ethan Zuckerman - Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection

Published: June 24, 2013, 7:44 p.m.

Host: Chris Mooney

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Our guest this week is an inspiring thinker whom we've wanted to get on the show for a long, long time: Ethan Zuckerman.

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He's the director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT, and works at MIT's Media Lab. He's also the co-founder of\xa0Global Voices, a community of global bloggers\u2014and has worked in the past at Geekcorps and Tripod.

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We're here to discuss his new book Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection\u2014which among other things argues that the technological ability to communicate with someone does not inevitably lead to increased human connection. In other words, it's about nothing less than how to use the Internet to open, rather than close, your mind.