Ethan Zuckerman: Re-imagining international news in an age of citizen media

Ethan Zuckerman, Director of the Center for Civic Media, MIT and author of a forthcoming book Rewire: Rethinking Globalisation in the Age of Connection talks about: the decline of international news coverage; checking the “nutritional” content of your daily news intake so that you can control it; creating serendipity to make connections; looking at different viewpoints (including a weekly news project called The Weekly Different) and getting access to different views but those that are relatively close to your own