Ethan Zuckerman

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Public Media vs. P(dystopia): reflections from Attention 2026 26 Oct 2026
At the “Attention: Democracy Rebuilt” conference hosted by McGill University in Montreal last week, cognitive scientist and AI critic Gary Marcus offered a helpful formulation. (I was co-chair of this conference, helping organize the event.) It’s become de rigueur for people in…
My personal contribution to the US/Canada trade war 27 Aug 2026
If you’re active in academic circles, you might have seen my name in a big announcement today. (Okay, maybe it would have been a bigger announcement if Trump hadn’t announced renaming Lake Ontario. But the FT quotes me… which you can only read if you can get behind their…
The Eyes Have Had It: A (Mental) Health Update from the Summer of Sue 10 Aug 2026
Academic summers always start with a plan. This is the summer I’m going to start three new lines of research, writing key bits of code myself. It’s the summer I publish those two papers I’ve had in draft. It’s the summer I’m going to step away from the screen and finish a dozen…