The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.

The benefits and consequences of globalization have a great deal to do with whether we're intelligent and thoughtful about how we approach globalization, or whether we're blindly accepting... or blindly resistant.

If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?

[According to Twitter] 24 percent of American Twitter users are African-American. That's about twice as high as African-Americans are represented in the population.

When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.

If I use Facebook to stay in touch with my high school friends who are church-going Republicans, I may be getting more ideological diversity than in hanging out with secular progressives on the World Politics sub-reddit.

Talking about 'stopping globalization' is unrealistic - and probably not what anti-globalization protesters actually want.