How wide a world?How wide a web?

Ethan Zuckerman (@ethanz)TED Global - July 14,2010

Brazil vs. North KoreaJohannesburg, June 15, 2010

Carlos Eduardo dos Santos Galvão Bueno

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8.3%17.7%

21m

16m5m5m 8.4%

11%

7.5%

4.7%

6.8%

4.8%

0.9%

2.7%

3.8m

2.8m

2.4m1.9m

1.5m

1.2m

monthly unique visitors% of internet users who use twitter

data from Google ad planner, June 2010

Fernanda ViégasMartin Wattenberg

Flowing Media - hint.fm

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visualization of global air routes by “a trotskyite”, 2009. CC-attribution

visualization by Zurich University of Applied Sciencesusing data from Flightstats.com, 2008

35% in 1970s 12% in 2000sinternational news as percentage of american TV newscast

New York Times media attention, week of 6/28/10

99.9%

93.9%

98.0%

93.6%

99.1%

98.7%

95.4%

97.0%

98.0%

98.8%Percent of news page views from domestic sites, Google Ad Planner data, 6/2010

imaginary cosmopolitanismFrench Pavilion at Epcot Center, Orlando, Florida

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raising voices

routinizing translation

search social

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cc Flickr photo by Merlijn Hoekserendipity

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bridge figures

xenophiles

raise voicesgo beyond babel

engineer serendipitybuild bridges

cultivate xenophilesrewire

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