Global Voices Co-Founder to Head MIT’s Center for Civic Media

Global Voices Co-Founder to Head MIT’s Center for Civic Media · Global Voices: "Global Voices co-founder and long time fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Ethan Zuckerman, has been named director of MIT's Center for Civic Media and a principal research scientist at MIT's Media Lab. He begins on 1 September, 2011. We've been congratulating Ethan internally at Global Voices, and all hope to learn from and contribute to the research ahead!

The research center (formerly known as Center for Future Civic Media) was founded in 2007 with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to explore the opportunities and challenges of news and information in a digital age. On Wednesday, the Knight Foundation announced an additional investment of $3.76 million for the Center to expand its work and reach."