Talks
Fixing Social Media
School of Public Policy, UMass Amherst, 2020
What the Post Office Can Tell us about the Internet
Future of Speech Online, 2018
The System is Broken… and That’s the Good News
re:publica, 2015
Digital Cosmopolitan
Talks at Google, 2014
Saving the World with Advocacy Journalism
Nieman Center, 2013
Cute Cats and the Arab Spring
University of British Columbia, 2011
How to Listen to Global Voices
TED Talk, TED Global, 2010
A Compact History of the Social Internet
Harvard Berkman Center, 2006
Articles
Scholarly & Popular
Bermejo…Zuckerman (2026), Media Cloud 2.0: An Updated Open Web News Archive, ICWSM 2026
Lane and Zuckerman (2026), The loyal client: lessons from the past for the future of social media, Internet Histories
Zuckerman and McGrady (2026), The Quotidian Web and the Accidental Archive, International Journal of Communication
McGrady, Zheng and Zuckerman (2025), One Platform, Four Languages, Social Media+ Society
Zuckerman and Brickman (2025), Improving Social Media with Middleware, ANNALS
Gazia…Zuckerman (2024), Proactive blocking through the automated identification of likely harassers, Journal of Online Trust and Safety
Partridge…Zuckerman (2024), Here be livestreams: Trade-offs in creating temporal maps of Reddit, ACM Web Science
McGrady…Zuckerman (2023), Dialing for Videos: A random sample of YouTube, Journal of Quantitative Description
Zuckerman and Nicolucci (2023), From community governance to customer service and back again, Social Media+ Society
Bogaerts, Van Dijck, Zuckerman (2023), Creating PublicSpaces: centering public values in digital infrastructures, Digital Government: Research and Practice
Zuckerman (2023), Why Study Media Ecosystems?, chapter in Understanding Movement Parties Through their Communication
Nicolucci and Zuckerman (2022), Forgetful Advertising: Imagining a More Responsible Digital Ad System, Yale Journal of Law & Technology
Zuckerman (2022), How social media could teach us to be better citizens, Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society
Papakyriakopoulos and Zuckerman (2021), The Media During the Rise of Trump: Identity Politics, Immigration, ‘Mexican’ Demonization and Hate-Crime, ICWSM 2021
Roberts…Zuckerman (2021), Media Cloud: Massive Open Source Collection of Global News on the Open Web, ICWSM 2021
Zuckerman (2021), Why Study Media Ecosystems?, Information, Communication & Society
Nicolucci and Zuckerman (2021), An Illustrated Field Guide to Social Media, Knight First Amendment Institute, Columbia University
Zuckerman (2020), What is Digital Public Infrastructure?, Journalism and Liberty
Zuckerman (2020), The Case for Digital Public Infrastructure, Knight First Amendment Institute, Columbia University
Zuckerman, E., Matias, J. N., Bhargava, R., Bermejo, F., & Ko, A. (2019), Whose Death Matters? A Quantitative Analysis of Media Attention to Deaths of Black Americans in Police Confrontations, International Journal of Communication, 13, 27
Ndulue, E. B., Bermejo, F., Ramos, K., Lowe, S., Hoffman, N., & Zuckerman, E. (2019), The language of immigration reporting: Normalizing vs. watchdogging in a nativist age
Zuckerman (2019), Building a More Honest Internet, Columbia Journalism Review
Zuckerman (2019), QAnon and the Emergence of the Unreal, Journal of Design and Science
York and Zuckerman (2019), Moderating the Public Sphere, chapter in Human Rights in the Age of Platforms, MIT Press
Zuckerman (2018), Four Problems for News and Democracy, Trust, Media and Democracy
Zuckerman (2017), Mistrust, efficacy and the new civics: understanding the deep roots of the crisis of faith in journalism, Aspen Institute whitepaper
Barabas, Narula, Zuckerman (2017), Back to the Future: The Decentralized Web, MIT Digital Currency Initiative whitepaper
Zuckerman (2017), Zuckerberg and the Imaginary Cosmopolitan, California Review of Images and Mark Zuckerberg, vol.1 issue 1
Zuckerman (2017), Should Journalism Be a Surveillance Safe Space?, chapter in Journalism After Snowden, Columbia University Press
Roberts…Zuckerman (2017), Digital Health Communication and Global Public Influence: A Study of the Ebola Epidemic, Journal of Health Communication
D’Ignazio, Zuckerman (2017), “Are We Citizen Scientists, Citizen Sensors or Something Else Entirely?”, chapter in International Handbook of Media Literacy Education
Zuckerman (2016), The Perils of Using Technology to Solve Other People’s Problems, The Atlantic
Schiffrin, Zuckerman (2015), Can We Measure Media Impact? Surveying the Field, Stanford Social Innovation Review
Zuckerman (2014), The Internet’s Original Sin, The Atlantic
Zuckerman (2014), New Media, New Civics?, Policy & Internet, 6: 151-168
Graeff, Stempeck, Zuckerman (2014), The battle for ‘Trayvon Martin’: Mapping a media controversy online and off-line, First Monday
Zuckerman (2013), Cute Cats to the Rescue? Participatory Media and Political Expression, in “Youth, New Media and Political Participation”, MIT Press
Zuckerman, Roberts, McGrady, York and Palfrey (2011), Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Against Independent Media and Human Rights Sites, Berkman Center Research Publication
Zuckerman (2010), Intermediary Censorship, chapter in Access Controlled, MIT Press
Zuckerman (2010), Decentralizing the Mobile Phone – A Second ICT4D Revolution?, Information Technology and International Development, volume 6:99-103
Zuckerman (2010), International Reporting in the Age of Participatory Media, Daedalus 139:2
Zuckerman (2009), Citizen Media in the Kenyan Electoral Crisis, chapter in Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives, Peter Lang
Zuckerman (2008), Serendipity, Echo Chambers, and the Front Page, Nieman Reports
Zuckerman (2007), Meet the Bridgebloggers, Public Choice 134:1-2
Zuckerman (2003), Working Paper: Global Attention Profiles, Berkman Center whitepaper