Zeynep Tufekci
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Zeynep Tufekci (
Before becoming a regular columnist, she was a frequent contributor to The New York Times and
Early life and education
Tufekci was born in
Career
Tufekci worked as a computer programmer before becoming an academic and turning her attention to social science.[3]
Tufekci was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Maryland Baltimore County from 2005 to 2008 and Assistant Professor from 2008 to 2011.[11]
In 2012, Tufekci became a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.[12] During this time, Tufekci expressed concern about political campaigns impacted by and driven by big data in the form of "Smart Campaigns".[13] This early warning was eventually recognized as prescient after Donald Trump was elected in 2016.[6] At this time, Tufekci also focused on explaining social contagion and mass shootings and its direct relation to social media.[14][15][16] She has repeatedly urged both online and in op-eds[17] that outlets should avoid repetition of the killer's name and face as well as step-by-step discussions of their methods.[18][19] The phenomenon of suicide contagion via social media and news coverage is part of Tufekci's analytical work.[20]
In 2016, Tufekci was 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.[21] In May 2017, Tufekci's first book, Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest, was published by Yale University Press.[22]
In 2020 during the
Tufekci has given a series of TED talks on online social change, technology, the role of artificial intelligence and machine learning, and the role of social media and tech companies.[29] She has also been a regular contributor at Wired.[30]
Honors and awards
- 2005: International Communication Association, Top Eight Papers in Communication and Technology for "Digital Divide and Social Mobility: How Much Hope and How Much Hype?"[31]
- 2011-2012: The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, Fellow[32]
- 2012-2013: Princeton University, Center for Information Technology Policy, Fellow[33]
- 2014: Business Insider, The 100 Most Influential Tech People On Twitter[34]
- 2014: American Sociological Association, The Section on Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology's Award for Public Sociology[35]
- 2015-2016: Carnegie Corporation of New York, Andrew Carnegie Fellow in the Social Sciences and Humanities[36]
- 2022: Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree, Brown University[37]
Works
Books
- Tufekci, Zeynep (2017). ISBN 9780274756650.
Theses
- Tufekcioglu, Zeynep S (1999). Mental Deskilling in the Age of the Smart Machine (M.A.). University of Texas at Austin, Department of Radio-Television-Film. [38]
- Tufekci, Zeynep (2004). In Search of Lost Jobs: The Rhetoric and Practice of Computer Skills Training (Ph.D.). University of Texas at Austin. [39]
Critical studies and reviews of Tufekci's work
- Twitter and tear gas
- Heller, Nathan (August 21, 2017). "Out of Action: Do Protests Work?". The Critics. A Critic at Large. The New Yorker. Vol. 93, no. 24. pp. 70–77.[40]
References
- ^ Tufekci, Zeynep. "Zeynep Tufekci". sociology.princeton.edu/. Retrieved August 22, 2023.
- ^ Brown, Sarah. "Meet the Professor Who's Warning the World About Facebook and Google". www.chronicle.com. Retrieved October 15, 2020.
- ^ ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 15, 2020.
- ^ "Finalist: Zeynep Tufekci". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved August 31, 2022.
- ^ Singal, Jesse (July 27, 2016). "Why Did WikiLeaks Help Dox Most of Turkey's Adult Female Population?". Intelligencer. New York.
- ^ a b Abbruzzese, Jason (November 3, 2017). "Zeynep Tufekci tried to warn us about Facebook and politics back in 2012". Mashable.
- ^ Columbia Journalism School. "Dr. Zeynep Tufekci to Join Columbia Journalism School's Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security". March 25, 2021.
- ^ Tufekci, Zeynep (June 9, 2015). "Opinion: How Hope Returned to Turkey". The New York Times.
- ^ a b "Zeynep Tufekci UNC bio". sils.unc.edu. University of North Carolina. Archived from the original on April 22, 2022. Retrieved October 17, 2020.
- ^ "Zeynep Tufekci Columbia bio". journalism.columbia.edu. Columbia University School of Journalism. Retrieved April 26, 2023.
- ^ "Zeynep Tufekci, CV Princeton".
- ^ "Zeynep Tufekci, Faculty Associate". Berkman Klein Center. Harvard University. March 24, 2020.
- ^ Tufekci, Zeynep (November 16, 2012). "Opinion: Beware the Smart Campaign". The New York Times.
- ^ Frank, Russell (February 16, 2018). "The media need to think twice about how they portray mass shooters". The Conversation.
- ^ Tufekci, Zeynep (December 19, 2012). "The Media Needs to Stop Inspiring Copycat Murders. Here's How". The Atlantic.
- ^ Tufekci, Zeynep (August 27, 2015). "Opinion: The Virginia Shooter Wanted Fame. Let's Not Give It to Him". The New York Times.
- ^ Lopez, German (August 28, 2015). "Mass shooters want fame. Here's why we should stop giving it to them". Vox.
- ^ "Texas police stop naming killer in aftermath of shootings, hoping to discourage copycats". CBC News. Associated Press. November 7, 2017.
- ^ Schulman, Ari N. (November 17, 2017). "How Not to Cover Mass Shootings". Wall Street Journal.
- ^ Lopatto, Elizabeth (August 27, 2015). "How do we stop killers from exploiting social media?". The Verge.
- ^ "Special report: Politics by numbers: Voters in America, and increasingly elsewhere too, are being ever more precisely targeted". The Economist. March 23, 2016.
- ^ Heller, Nathan (August 14, 2017). "Is There Any Point to Protesting? We turn out in the streets and nothing seems to happen. Maybe we're doing it wrong". The New Yorker.
- ^ Meylan, Phillip (March 31, 2020). "Did the Media Miss the Mark on Masks?". The Factual.
- ^ Witte, Griff; Cha, Ariana Eunjung; Dawsey, Josh (July 28, 2020). "At the heart of dismal U.S. coronavirus response, a fraught relationship with masks". The Washington Post.
- ^ Tufekci, Zeynep [@zeynep] (July 29, 2020). "I forgot to add yes, I pointed all of this out to the WHO in two meetings with the mask committee, some of the same studies and the logic of why we would not expect a false sense of security like that. This is a review article, so the evidence was already available back in March<" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
- PMID 33865497.
- S2CID 237308712.
- ^ Abbruzzese, Jason (November 3, 2017). "Zeynep Tufekci tried to warn us about Facebook and politics back in 2012". Mashable.
- ^ "Zeynep Tufekci". WIRED Magazine. 2019.
- ^ "Top Eight Papers in Communication and Technology, Part 2". International Communication Association. May 29, 2005.
- ^ "Berkman Center Announces 2011-2012 Fellows". The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. June 12, 2018.
- ^ "Fellows: Zeynep Tufekci (2012-2014)". Center for Information Technology Policy. Princeton University. 2012.
- ^ Borison, Rebecca (April 14, 2014). "Presenting: The 100 Most Influential Tech People On Twitter; 99. Zeynep Tufekci". Business Insider.
- ^ "Section on Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology Past Award Recipients". American Sociological Association. 2014.
- ^ "2015 Andrew Carnegie Fellows Recipient: Zeynep Tufekci". Carnegie Corporation of New York. 2015.
- ^ Clark, Brian E. "Brown to confer nine honorary degrees during Commencement and Reunion Weekend". News from Brown. Brown University. Retrieved May 24, 2022.
- .
- S2CID 19798104.
- ^ Online version is titled "Is there any point to protesting?"
External links
- Official website
- Zeynep Tufekci Archived July 2, 2019, at the Wayback Machine at UNC School of Information and Library Science
- Zeynep Tufekci at The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
- Zeynep Tufekci at TED
- Zeynep Tufekci at Scientific American
- Zeynep Tufekci at The Atlantic
- Zeynep Tufekci at The New York Times
- Zeynep Tufekci at WIRED