Evgeny Morozov Quotes

Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.

When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.

Even with censorship, the Internet is a force for change.

My generation is under-entertained.

When I talk about the Internet, it's because young people are there. TV and radio are still what moves the masses, and you can't ignore that. But you also have to feed that monster that grows daily, which is the Internet.

If you look not just at the Arab Spring, but at what I call the 'Youth Spring' that has started in Europe, young people are starting to find a voice, and they are not looking to the traditional media to reflect that.

What's profound and exciting is the way young people are taking advantage of the fact that the Internet enables everyone to have a megaphone. It enables everyone to stand up and say, 'I deserve to be heard, and I demand that you listen.'

People talk about PlayStations, video games, social network and Twitter; I can't handle it.

I truly believe that what we're seeing with online dating is very similar to what happened with the Myspace-Facebook era, where Myspace was once this place for online connecting for a very select group of young people. And then Facebook kind of hit at this moment where it was acceptable for everybody to do it.

This wired generation is kind of cool.

My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.

The biggest communities in which young people now reside are online communities.

By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.

Politics have been changed forever because of people. The Internet is one of the tools that has helped. And it isn't just politics. The new networked dynamics that are now possible with these new forms of communication are also changing the way people engage as consumers that demand more social value from corporations.

Digital activism did not spring immaculately out of Twitter and Facebook. It's been going on ever since blogs existed.

And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.

I love seeing the way in which young people embrace video, and the YouTube vlogger is a fantastic phenomenon.

The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control.

Will the social networking phenomenon lessen? I don't think so.

When young people see movies like 'Gandhi 'or 'JFK,' there is an element of romanticization of these powerful people, and young people often feel a huge distance between their own lives and the lives of these social-change heroes. But the Panthers were flawed-up people from the streets, so it's easier to identify with them.

Society has changed so dramatically that it's empowered the individual, and technology has a lot to do with that. Years ago, if you had a bad experience at a restaurant, you could complain to the manager. Maybe you could picket. Now, you go online and write a review that may go viral.

Games are the most social of all things on the web.

I do watch a lot of YouTube.

These young people have to know that Dr. King and others made it possible for them to do their Hip Hopping.

It would be a mistake to attribute to the Communist Party complete control over Chinese nationalism today. With the emergence of the Internet, cell phones, and text messaging, popular nationalists in China are increasingly able to act independently of the state.