Lexington Community Education presents: The World is Talking: Who's Listening? An Evening with Ethan Zuckerman

Citizen media is changing the world of journalism, turning the news from a lecture into a conversation. In some nations, this conversation is challenging government monopolies on information and creating debates on taboo issues in the absence of a free press. With individuals around the world raising their voices, how is mainstream media amplifying - or silencing - new voices? How will these voices challenge how we think about globalization, democratization, environmentalism and other multinational issues? Ethan Zuckerman is the recently-announced director of the MIT Center for Civic Media, officially starting in September 2011. Zuckerman was one of the first staff members of Tripod.com, one of the first successful “dot com” enterprises, and later founder of Geekcorps and Global Voices Online. Ethan has been a senior researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, where he is also a long-time fellow. His work at the Berkman Center has included research into global media attention, as well as the co-founding of Global Voices in collaboration with Rebecca MacKinnon. For some years he was also a contributing writer for Worldchanging.com, where he served as president of the board of directors. In January 2007, he joined the inaugural Wikipedia Foundation Advisory Board.