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"We’ve lost 10 years of innovation. This decade has been boring for the web."

April 23, 2018

Ethan Zuckerman

Former Associate Professor of the Practice in Media Arts and Sciences; Former Director, Center for Civic Media

This interview features Ethan Zuckerman, an early staff member at Tripod.com widely credited with inventing the pop-up ad. Zuckerman is now a professor of media at MIT.

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"Making media and putting it out in the world is a really powerful way of engaging with social change."

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