Zeynep Tufekci

Zeynep Tufekci

Zeynep Tufekci in 2011
Born Istanbul
Nationality American
Academic work
Discipline Sociology
Sub discipline social media
Institutions University of North Carolina

Zeynep Tufekci (/ˈzeɪnɛp tʊˈfɛktʃi/ ZAY-nep tuu-FEK-chee; Turkish: Zeynep Tüfekçi) is an American writer, academic, and self-styled "techno-sociologist" who primarily writes about the effect of technology on politics and society. She is an associate professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina and a faculty associate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University in Massachusetts. In 2015, she was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow in the Social Sciences and Humanities[1] for the inaugural class.

Biography

Tufekci was born in Istanbul, Turkey, near Taksim Gezi Park in Istanbul's Beyoğlu district.[2] She worked as a computer programmer before becoming an academic and turning her attention to social science.[3] Her research and publications include topics such as the effect of big data on politics and the public sphere,[4] how social media affects social movements, and the privacy and security vulnerabilities exposed by the coming Internet of Things. In general, she has sought to outline the potential negative societal consequences of social media and big data while not rejecting these phenomena outright.

Tufekci has been a regular contributor to The Atlantic[5] and currently is a monthly contributor for The New York Times Op-Ed page on topics related to technology's social impact.

Career

She gave a TED talk in October 2014 on online social change, for example, which argued that while technology can make organizing social movements easier, it does not necessarily lead to better outcomes.[6] She was also featured in a special report by The Economist on Technology and politics in which she argues that the increasingly individualized targeting of voters by political campaigns is leading to a reduction of the "public sphere" in which civic debate takes place publicly.[7]

Works

References

  1. ↑ Tufekci, Zeynep. "Zeynep Tufekci". Carnegie Foundation. Retrieved 2016-03-31.
  2. ↑ Tufekci, Zeynep (June 9, 2015). "How Hope Returned to Turkey". The New York Times. Retrieved March 10, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Zeynep Tufekci". New York Times. Retrieved 2016-03-31.
  4. ↑ Tufekci, Zeynep (2014-07-02). "Engineering the public: Big data, surveillance and computational politics". First Monday. 19 (7). ISSN 1396-0466.
  5. ↑ Tufekci, Zeynep. "Zeynep Tufekci". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2016-03-31.
  6. ↑ Tufekci, Zeynep. "Online social change: easy to organize, hard to win". www.ted.com. Retrieved 2016-03-31.
  7. ↑ "Politics by numbers". The Economist. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2016-03-31.
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