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{{short description|Turkish sociologist and writer}}
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| discipline = Sociologist
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| sub_discipline = Complex Systems <br/>Science and Technology
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| workplaces = [[Princeton University]] <br/> [[Columbia University]] <br/> [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]] <br /> ''[[The New York Times]]'' <br /> ''[[The Atlantic]]''
| workplaces = [[University of Maryland Baltimore County]] <br/> [[Princeton University]] <br/> [[Columbia University]] <br/> [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]] <br /> ''[[The New York Times]]'' <br /> ''[[The Atlantic]]''
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'''Zeynep Tufekci''' ({{lang-tr|Zeynep Tüfekçi}}; {{IPA-tr|zejˈnep tyˈfektʃi|}}; {{respell|zay|NEP|_|tuu|FEK|chee}}) is a [[sociologist]], and the Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs<ref>{{Cite web|last=Tufekci|first=Zeynep|title=Zeynep Tufekci|url=https://sociology.princeton.edu/people/zeynep-tufekci |access-date=2023-08-22|website=sociology.princeton.edu/}}</ref> at [[Princeton University]]. She is also a columnist for ''[[The New York Times]]''. Her work focuses on social media, media ethics, the social implications of new technologies, such as artificial intelligence and big data, as well as societal challenges such as the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] using complex and [[Systems theory|systems-based thinking]]. According to ''[[The Chronicle of Higher Education]],'' she is one of the most prominent academic voices on social media and the new public sphere.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Brown|first=Sarah|title=Meet the Professor Who's Warning the World About Facebook and Google|url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/meet-the-professor-whos-warning-the-world-about-facebook-and-google/|access-date=2020-10-15|website=www.chronicle.com}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite news|last=Smith|first=Ben|date=2020-08-23|title=How Zeynep Tufekci Keeps Getting the Big Things Right|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/23/business/media/how-zeynep-tufekci-keeps-getting-the-big-things-right.html|access-date=2020-10-15|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In 2022, Tufekci was a [[Pulitzer Prize]] finalist for her “insightful, often prescient, columns on the pandemic and American culture”, which the committee said “brought clarity to the shifting official guidance and compelled us towards greater compassion and informed response.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |title=Finalist: Zeynep Tufekci |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/zeynep-tufekci |access-date=2022-08-31 |website=www.pulitzer.org |language=en}}</ref>
'''Zeynep Tufekci''' ({{langx|tr|Zeynep Tüfekçi}}; {{IPA|tr|zejˈnep tyˈfektʃi|}}; {{respell|zay|NEP|_|tuu|FEK|chee}}) is a Turkish-American [[sociologist]], and the Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs<ref>{{Cite web|last=Tufekci|first=Zeynep|title=Zeynep Tufekci|url=https://sociology.princeton.edu/people/zeynep-tufekci |access-date=August 22, 2023|website=sociology.princeton.edu/}}</ref> at [[Princeton University]]. She is also a columnist for ''[[The New York Times]]''. Her work focuses on social media, media ethics, the social implications of new technologies, such as artificial intelligence and big data, as well as societal challenges such as the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] using complex and [[Systems theory|systems-based thinking]]. According to ''[[The Chronicle of Higher Education]],'' she is one of the most prominent academic voices on social media and the new public sphere.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Brown|first=Sarah|title=Meet the Professor Who's Warning the World About Facebook and Google|url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/meet-the-professor-whos-warning-the-world-about-facebook-and-google/|access-date=October 15, 2020|website=www.chronicle.com}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite news|last=Smith|first=Ben|date=August 23, 2020|title=How Zeynep Tufekci Keeps Getting the Big Things Right|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/23/business/media/how-zeynep-tufekci-keeps-getting-the-big-things-right.html|access-date=October 15, 2020|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In 2022, Tufekci was a [[Pulitzer Prize]] finalist for her "insightful, often prescient, columns on the pandemic and American culture", which the committee said "brought clarity to the shifting official guidance and compelled us towards greater compassion and informed response."<ref>{{Cite web |last= |title=Finalist: Zeynep Tufekci |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/zeynep-tufekci |access-date=August 31, 2022 |website=www.pulitzer.org |language=en}}</ref>


Before becoming a regular columnist, she was a frequent contributor to ''The New York Times'' and ''[[The Atlantic]]''. She has also written columns for ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'' and ''[[Scientific American]]''. Prior to Princeton, she was a professor at [[Columbia University]]'s Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security, a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at [[Harvard University]],<ref name="2016-NYMag-WikiLinks-Turkey">{{cite news|last1=Singal|first1=Jesse|title=Why Did WikiLeaks Help Dox Most of Turkey's Adult Female Population?|url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/07/why-did-wikileaks-help-dox-most-of-turkeys-adult-female-population.html |department=Intelligencer |work=[[New York (magazine)|New York]] |date=27 July 2016|language=en-us}}</ref><ref name="2017-Mashable-Facebook">{{cite news|last1=Abbruzzese|first1=Jason|title=Zeynep Tufekci tried to warn us about Facebook and politics back in 2012|url=https://mashable.com/2017/11/03/zeynep-tufekci-facebook-social-media/|work=Mashable|date=3 November 2017|language=en}}</ref><ref>Columbia Journalism School. "[https://journalism.columbia.edu/zeynep-tufekci-join-columbia-newmark-center Dr. Zeynep Tufekci to Join Columbia Journalism School's Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security]". March 25, 2021.</ref> and an associate professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina.
Before becoming a regular columnist, she was a frequent contributor to ''The New York Times'' and ''[[The Atlantic]]''. She has also written columns for ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'' and ''[[Scientific American]]''. Prior to Princeton, she was a professor at [[Columbia University]]'s Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security, a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at [[Harvard University]],<ref name="2016-NYMag-WikiLinks-Turkey">{{cite news|last1=Singal|first1=Jesse|title=Why Did WikiLeaks Help Dox Most of Turkey's Adult Female Population?|url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/07/why-did-wikileaks-help-dox-most-of-turkeys-adult-female-population.html |department=Intelligencer |work=[[New York (magazine)|New York]] |date=July 27, 2016|language=en-us}}</ref><ref name="2017-Mashable-Facebook">{{cite news|last1=Abbruzzese|first1=Jason|title=Zeynep Tufekci tried to warn us about Facebook and politics back in 2012|url=https://mashable.com/2017/11/03/zeynep-tufekci-facebook-social-media/|work=Mashable|date=November 3, 2017|language=en}}</ref><ref>Columbia Journalism School. "[https://journalism.columbia.edu/zeynep-tufekci-join-columbia-newmark-center Dr. Zeynep Tufekci to Join Columbia Journalism School's Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security]". March 25, 2021.</ref> and an associate professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina and Associate Professor at the [[University of Maryland Baltimore County]].


==Early life and education==
==Early life and education==
Tufekci was born in [[Istanbul]], Turkey, near [[Taksim Gezi Park]] in Istanbul's [[Beyoğlu]] district.<ref name=2015-NYTimes-Hope-Turkey>{{cite news|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title=Opinion: How Hope Returned to Turkey|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/10/opinion/how-hope-returned-to-turkey.html|work=The New York Times|date=9 June 2015}}</ref> In 1995, Tufekci received a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in sociology from [[Istanbul University]], as well as an undergraduate degree in computer programming from [[Boğaziçi University]].<ref name=UNC-bio>{{Cite web|title=Zeynep Tufekci UNC bio|url=https://sils.unc.edu/people/faculty/profiles/Zeynep-Tufekci|access-date=2020-10-17|website=sils.unc.edu|publisher=University of North Carolina|archive-date=April 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220422162220/https://sils.unc.edu/people/faculty/profiles/Zeynep-Tufekci |url-status=dead}}</ref> Tufekci earned a [[Master of Arts|M.A.]] and a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] from the [[University of Texas at Austin]].<ref name=UNC-bio/><ref>{{Cite web|title=Zeynep Tufekci Columbia bio |url=https://journalism.columbia.edu/faculty/zeynep-tufekci|access-date=2023-04-26|website=journalism.columbia.edu|publisher=Columbia University School of Journalism}}</ref>
Tufekci was born in [[Istanbul]], Turkey, near [[Taksim Gezi Park]] in Istanbul's [[Beyoğlu]] district.<ref name=2015-NYTimes-Hope-Turkey>{{cite news|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title=Opinion: How Hope Returned to Turkey|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/10/opinion/how-hope-returned-to-turkey.html|work=The New York Times|date=June 9, 2015}}</ref> In 1995, Tufekci received a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in sociology from [[Istanbul University]], as well as an undergraduate degree in computer programming from [[Boğaziçi University]].<ref name=UNC-bio>{{Cite web|title=Zeynep Tufekci UNC bio|url=https://sils.unc.edu/people/faculty/profiles/Zeynep-Tufekci|access-date=October 17, 2020|website=sils.unc.edu|publisher=University of North Carolina|archive-date=April 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220422162220/https://sils.unc.edu/people/faculty/profiles/Zeynep-Tufekci |url-status=dead}}</ref> Tufekci earned an [[Master of Arts|M.A.]] and a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] from the [[University of Texas at Austin]].<ref name=UNC-bio/><ref>{{Cite web|title=Zeynep Tufekci Columbia bio |url=https://journalism.columbia.edu/faculty/zeynep-tufekci|access-date=April 26, 2023|website=journalism.columbia.edu|publisher=Columbia University School of Journalism}}</ref>


==Career==
==Career==
Tufekci worked as a computer programmer before becoming an academic and turning her attention to [[social science]].<ref name=":2" />
Tufekci worked as a computer programmer before becoming an academic and turning her attention to [[social science]].<ref name=":2" />


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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Zeynep Tufekci, CV Princeton|url=https://princeton.academia.edu/ZeynepTufekci/CurriculumVitae}}</ref>
In 2012, Tufekci became a faculty associate at the [[Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society]] at Harvard University.<ref name=2012-BerkmanCenter-Profile>{{cite web|title=Zeynep Tufekci, Faculty Associate|url=https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/zeynep|website=Berkman Klein Center|publisher=Harvard University|language=en|date=24 March 2020}}</ref> During this time, Tufekci expressed concern about political campaigns impacted by and driven by big data in the form of "Smart Campaigns".<ref name=2012-NYTimes-SmartCampaign>{{cite news|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title=Opinion: Beware the Smart Campaign|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/17/opinion/beware-the-big-data-campaign.html|work=The New York Times|date=16 November 2012}}</ref> This early warning was eventually recognized as prescient after [[Donald Trump]] was [[2016 United States presidential election|elected in 2016]].<ref name=2017-Mashable-Facebook /> At this time, Tufekci also focused on explaining [[social contagion]] and mass shootings and its direct relation to social media.<ref name=2018-Conversation-MassShooters>{{cite news|last1=Frank|first1=Russell|title=The media need to think twice about how they portray mass shooters|url=https://theconversation.com/the-media-need-to-think-twice-about-how-they-portray-mass-shooters-91972|work=The Conversation|date=16 February 2018|language=en}}</ref><ref name=2012-Atlantic-MassShootings>{{cite news|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title=The Media Needs to Stop Inspiring Copycat Murders. Here's How.|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/12/the-media-needs-to-stop-inspiring-copycat-murders-heres-how/266439/|work=The Atlantic|date=19 December 2012}}</ref><ref name=2015-NYTimes-UVA>{{cite news|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title=Opinion: The Virginia Shooter Wanted Fame. Let's Not Give It to Him.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/opinion/the-virginia-shooter-wanted-fame-lets-not-give-it-to-him.html|work=The New York Times|date=27 August 2015}}</ref> She has repeatedly urged both online and in op-eds<ref name=2015-Vox-MassShooters>{{cite news|last1=Lopez|first1=German|title=Mass shooters want fame. Here's why we should stop giving it to them.|url=https://www.vox.com/2015/8/28/9217935/mass-shooting-fame|work=Vox|date=28 August 2015|language=en}}</ref> that outlets should avoid repetition of the killer's name and face as well as step-by-step discussions of their methods.<ref name=2017-CBCNews-Copycats>{{cite news|title=Texas police stop naming killer in aftermath of shootings, hoping to discourage copycats|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/texas-shootings-killer-not-named-1.4390751|work=CBC News|agency=Associated Press|date=7 November 2017}}</ref><ref name=2017-WSJ-MassShootings>{{cite news|last1=Schulman|first1=Ari N.|title=How Not to Cover Mass Shootings|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-not-to-cover-mass-shootings-1510939088|work=Wall Street Journal|date=17 November 2017}}</ref> The phenomenon of suicide contagion via social media and news coverage is part of Tufekci's analytical work.<ref name=2015-Verge-SuicideContagion>{{cite news|last1=Lopatto|first1=Elizabeth|title=How do we stop killers from exploiting social media?|url=https://www.theverge.com/2015/8/27/9217305/virginia-shooting-mass-murder-contagion-social-media|work=The Verge|date=27 August 2015|language=en}}</ref>


In 2012, Tufekci became a faculty associate at the [[Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society]] at Harvard University.<ref name=2012-BerkmanCenter-Profile>{{cite web|title=Zeynep Tufekci, Faculty Associate|url=https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/zeynep|website=Berkman Klein Center|publisher=Harvard University|language=en|date=March 24, 2020}}</ref> During this time, Tufekci expressed concern about political campaigns impacted by and driven by big data in the form of "Smart Campaigns".<ref name=2012-NYTimes-SmartCampaign>{{cite news|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title=Opinion: Beware the Smart Campaign|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/17/opinion/beware-the-big-data-campaign.html|work=The New York Times|date=November 16, 2012}}</ref> This early warning was eventually recognized as prescient after [[Donald Trump]] was [[2016 United States presidential election|elected in 2016]].<ref name=2017-Mashable-Facebook /> At this time, Tufekci also focused on explaining [[social contagion]] and mass shootings and its direct relation to social media.<ref name=2018-Conversation-MassShooters>{{cite news|last1=Frank|first1=Russell|title=The media need to think twice about how they portray mass shooters|url=https://theconversation.com/the-media-need-to-think-twice-about-how-they-portray-mass-shooters-91972|work=The Conversation|date=February 16, 2018|language=en}}</ref><ref name=2012-Atlantic-MassShootings>{{cite news|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title=The Media Needs to Stop Inspiring Copycat Murders. Here's How.|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/12/the-media-needs-to-stop-inspiring-copycat-murders-heres-how/266439/|work=The Atlantic|date=December 19, 2012}}</ref><ref name=2015-NYTimes-UVA>{{cite news|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title=Opinion: The Virginia Shooter Wanted Fame. Let's Not Give It to Him.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/opinion/the-virginia-shooter-wanted-fame-lets-not-give-it-to-him.html|work=The New York Times|date=August 27, 2015}}</ref> She has repeatedly urged both online and in op-eds<ref name=2015-Vox-MassShooters>{{cite news|last1=Lopez|first1=German|title=Mass shooters want fame. Here's why we should stop giving it to them.|url=https://www.vox.com/2015/8/28/9217935/mass-shooting-fame|work=Vox|date=August 28, 2015|language=en}}</ref> that outlets should avoid repetition of the killer's name and face as well as step-by-step discussions of their methods.<ref name=2017-CBCNews-Copycats>{{cite news|title=Texas police stop naming killer in aftermath of shootings, hoping to discourage copycats|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/texas-shootings-killer-not-named-1.4390751|work=CBC News|agency=Associated Press|date=November 7, 2017}}</ref><ref name=2017-WSJ-MassShootings>{{cite news|last1=Schulman|first1=Ari N.|title=How Not to Cover Mass Shootings|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-not-to-cover-mass-shootings-1510939088|work=Wall Street Journal|date=November 17, 2017}}</ref> The phenomenon of suicide contagion via social media and news coverage is part of Tufekci's analytical work.<ref name=2015-Verge-SuicideContagion>{{cite news|last1=Lopatto|first1=Elizabeth|title=How do we stop killers from exploiting social media?|url=https://www.theverge.com/2015/8/27/9217305/virginia-shooting-mass-murder-contagion-social-media|work=The Verge|date=August 27, 2015|language=en}}</ref>
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.<ref name=2016-Economist-Voters>{{cite news|title=Special report: Politics by numbers: Voters in America, and increasingly elsewhere too, are being ever more precisely targeted|url=https://www.economist.com/special-report/2016/03/23/politics-by-numbers|newspaper=The Economist|date=23 March 2016}}</ref> In May 2017, Tufekci's first book, ''[[Twitter and Tear Gas|Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest]]'', was published by Yale University Press.<ref name=2017-NYorker-TwitterTearGas>{{cite magazine|last1=Heller|first1=Nathan|title=Is There Any Point to Protesting? We turn out in the streets and nothing seems to happen. Maybe we're doing it wrong|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/21/is-there-any-point-to-protesting|magazine=The New Yorker|date=14 August 2017|language=en-us}}</ref>


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.<ref name=2016-Economist-Voters>{{cite news|title=Special report: Politics by numbers: Voters in America, and increasingly elsewhere too, are being ever more precisely targeted|url=https://www.economist.com/special-report/2016/03/23/politics-by-numbers|newspaper=The Economist|date=March 23, 2016}}</ref> In May 2017, Tufekci's first book, ''[[Twitter and Tear Gas|Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest]]'', was published by Yale University Press.<ref name=2017-NYorker-TwitterTearGas>{{cite magazine|last1=Heller|first1=Nathan|title=Is There Any Point to Protesting? We turn out in the streets and nothing seems to happen. Maybe we're doing it wrong|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/21/is-there-any-point-to-protesting|magazine=The New Yorker|date=August 14, 2017|language=en-us}}</ref>
In 2020 during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], Tufekci was critical of the mainstream media for failing to explain the importance of mask wearing, and is often cited as one of the first to take up the importance of mask wearing in the [[mainstream media]].<ref name="2020-Factual-COVID-MediaMasks">{{cite news|last1=Meylan|first1=Phillip|title=Did the Media Miss the Mark on Masks?|url=https://blog.thefactual.com/did-the-media-miss-the-mark-on-masks|work=The Factual|date=31 March 2020|language=en}}</ref><ref name="2020-WaPost-COVID-Masks">{{cite news|last1=Witte|first1=Griff|last2=Cha|first2=Ariana Eunjung|last3=Dawsey|first3=Josh|title=At the heart of dismal U.S. coronavirus response, a fraught relationship with masks|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/at-the-heart-of-dismal-us-coronavirus-response-a-fraught-relationship-with-masks/2020/07/28/f47eccd0-cde4-11ea-bc6a-6841b28d9093_story.html|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=28 July 2020|language=en}}</ref> This led to Tufekci becoming one of the academics who advised the WHO on adopting a mask recommendation.<ref name="2020-WHO-COVID-Masks-Tweet">{{cite tweet|last=Tufekci|first=Zeynep|user=zeynep|number=1288452067917533184|date=29 July 2020|title=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<|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Smith|first=Ben|date=2020-08-23|title=How Zeynep Tufekci Keeps Getting the Big Things Right|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/23/business/media/how-zeynep-tufekci-keeps-getting-the-big-things-right.html|access-date=2020-08-24|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In addition to her mainstream media writing during the [[COVID-19]] pandemic, Tufekci has co-authored articles published in [[Academic journal|peer reviewed academic journals]] reviewing evidence that the [[Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2|SARS-CoV-2 virus]] is airborne, with British medical professor [[Trisha Greenhalgh]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last1=Greenhalgh |first1=Trisha |last2=Jimenez |first2=Jose L |last3=Prather |first3=Kimberly A |last4=Tufekci |first4=Zeynep |last5=Fisman |first5=David |last6=Schooley |first6=Robert |date=May 2021 |title=Ten scientific reasons in support of airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 |url=https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00869-2 |journal=The Lancet |volume=397 |issue=10285 |pages=1603–1605 |doi=10.1016/s0140-6736(21)00869-2 |issn=0140-6736 |pmc=8049599 |pmid=33865497}}</ref> and [[environmental engineering]] professor [[Linsey Marr]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last1=Wang |first1=Chia C. |last2=Prather |first2=Kimberly A. |last3=Sznitman |first3=Josué |last4=Jimenez |first4=Jose L. |last5=Lakdawala |first5=Seema S. |last6=Tufekci |first6=Zeynep |last7=Marr |first7=Linsey C. |date=2021-08-27 |title=Airborne transmission of respiratory viruses |journal=Science |language=en |volume=373 |issue=6558 |pages=eabd9149 |bibcode=2021Sci...373.....W |doi=10.1126/science.abd9149 |issn=0036-8075 |pmc=8721651 |pmid=34446582 |s2cid=237308712 |doi-access=free}}</ref>


In 2020 during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], Tufekci was critical of the mainstream media for failing to explain the importance of mask wearing, and is often cited as one of the first to take up the importance of mask wearing in the [[mainstream media]].<ref name="2020-Factual-COVID-MediaMasks">{{cite news|last1=Meylan|first1=Phillip|title=Did the Media Miss the Mark on Masks?|url=https://blog.thefactual.com/did-the-media-miss-the-mark-on-masks|work=The Factual|date=March 31, 2020|language=en}}</ref><ref name="2020-WaPost-COVID-Masks">{{cite news|last1=Witte|first1=Griff|last2=Cha|first2=Ariana Eunjung|last3=Dawsey|first3=Josh|title=At the heart of dismal U.S. coronavirus response, a fraught relationship with masks|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/at-the-heart-of-dismal-us-coronavirus-response-a-fraught-relationship-with-masks/2020/07/28/f47eccd0-cde4-11ea-bc6a-6841b28d9093_story.html|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=July 28, 2020|language=en}}</ref> This led to Tufekci becoming one of the academics who advised the WHO on adopting a mask recommendation.<ref name="2020-WHO-COVID-Masks-Tweet">{{cite tweet|last=Tufekci|first=Zeynep|user=zeynep|number=1288452067917533184|date=July 29, 2020|title=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<|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Smith|first=Ben|date=August 23, 2020|title=How Zeynep Tufekci Keeps Getting the Big Things Right|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/23/business/media/how-zeynep-tufekci-keeps-getting-the-big-things-right.html|access-date=August 24, 2020|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In addition to her mainstream media writing during the [[COVID-19]] pandemic, Tufekci has co-authored articles published in [[Academic journal|peer reviewed academic journals]] reviewing evidence that the [[Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2|SARS-CoV-2 virus]] is airborne, with British medical professor [[Trisha Greenhalgh]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last1=Greenhalgh |first1=Trisha |last2=Jimenez |first2=Jose L |last3=Prather |first3=Kimberly A |last4=Tufekci |first4=Zeynep |last5=Fisman |first5=David |last6=Schooley |first6=Robert |date=May 2021 |title=Ten scientific reasons in support of airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 |url=https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00869-2 |journal=The Lancet |volume=397 |issue=10285 |pages=1603–1605 |doi=10.1016/s0140-6736(21)00869-2 |issn=0140-6736 |pmc=8049599 |pmid=33865497}}</ref> and [[environmental engineering]] professor [[Linsey Marr]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last1=Wang |first1=Chia C. |last2=Prather |first2=Kimberly A. |last3=Sznitman |first3=Josué |last4=Jimenez |first4=Jose L. |last5=Lakdawala |first5=Seema S. |last6=Tufekci |first6=Zeynep |last7=Marr |first7=Linsey C. |date=August 27, 2021 |title=Airborne transmission of respiratory viruses |journal=Science |language=en |volume=373 |issue=6558 |pages=eabd9149 |bibcode= |doi=10.1126/science.abd9149 |issn=0036-8075 |pmc=8721651 |pmid=34446582 |s2cid=237308712 |doi-access=free}}</ref>
Tufekci has given a series of [[TED (conference)|TED talks]] on online social change, technology, the role of artificial intelligence and machine learning, and the role of social media and tech companies.<ref name="2017-Mashable-FacebookPolitics">{{cite news|last1=Abbruzzese|first1=Jason|title=Zeynep Tufekci tried to warn us about Facebook and politics back in 2012|url=https://mashable.com/2017/11/03/zeynep-tufekci-facebook-social-media/#H2sZyBai6Oqf|work=Mashable|date=3 November 2017|language=en}}</ref> She has also been a regular contributor at ''Wired''.<ref name="2019-Wired-Profile">{{cite web|title=Zeynep Tufekci|url=https://www.wired.com/author/zeynep-tufekci/|website=WIRED Magazine|date=2019}}</ref>

Tufekci has given a series of [[TED (conference)|TED talks]] on online social change, technology, the role of artificial intelligence and machine learning, and the role of social media and tech companies.<ref name="2017-Mashable-FacebookPolitics">{{cite news|last1=Abbruzzese|first1=Jason|title=Zeynep Tufekci tried to warn us about Facebook and politics back in 2012|url=https://mashable.com/2017/11/03/zeynep-tufekci-facebook-social-media/#H2sZyBai6Oqf|work=Mashable|date=November 3, 2017|language=en}}</ref> She has also been a regular contributor at ''Wired''.<ref name="2019-Wired-Profile">{{cite web|title=Zeynep Tufekci|url=https://www.wired.com/author/zeynep-tufekci/|website=WIRED Magazine|date=2019}}</ref>


==Honors and awards==
==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?"<ref name=2005-ICA-TopPapers>{{cite news|title=Top Eight Papers in Communication and Technology, Part 2|url=https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ica/ica05/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Search+Load+Session&session_id=3635&PHPSESSID=ov95kd9g6dve21tfbkj2f00ev4|work=International Communication Association|date=29 May 2005}}</ref>
* 2005: [[International Communication Association]], Top Eight Papers in Communication and Technology for "Digital Divide and Social Mobility: How Much Hope and How Much Hype?"<ref name=2005-ICA-TopPapers>{{cite news|title=Top Eight Papers in Communication and Technology, Part 2|url=https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ica/ica05/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Search+Load+Session&session_id=3635&PHPSESSID=ov95kd9g6dve21tfbkj2f00ev4|work=International Communication Association|date=May 29, 2005}}</ref>
* 2011-2012: [[Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society|The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University]], Fellow<ref name=2011-BerkmanFellow>{{cite news|title=Berkman Center Announces 2011-2012 Fellows|url=https://cyber.harvard.edu/newsroom/2011_2012_fellows|work=The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University|date=12 June 2018|language=en}}</ref>
* 2011-2012: [[Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society|The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University]], Fellow<ref name=2011-BerkmanFellow>{{cite news|title=Berkman Center Announces 2011-2012 Fellows|url=https://cyber.harvard.edu/newsroom/2011_2012_fellows|work=The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University|date=June 12, 2018|language=en}}</ref>
* 2012-2013: [[Princeton University]], [[Center for Information Technology Policy]], Fellow<ref name=2012-PrincetonFellow>{{cite web|title=Fellows: Zeynep Tufekci (2012-2014)|url=https://citp.princeton.edu/people/fellows/|website=Center for Information Technology Policy|publisher=Princeton University|date=2012}}</ref>
* 2012-2013: [[Princeton University]], [[Center for Information Technology Policy]], Fellow<ref name=2012-PrincetonFellow>{{cite web|title=Fellows: Zeynep Tufekci (2012-2014)|url=https://citp.princeton.edu/people/fellows/|website=Center for Information Technology Policy|publisher=Princeton University|date=2012}}</ref>
* 2014: [[Business Insider]], The 100 Most Influential Tech People On Twitter<ref name=2014-BusinessInsider-100Tech>{{cite news|last1=Borison|first1=Rebecca|title=Presenting: The 100 Most Influential Tech People On Twitter; 99. Zeynep Tufekci|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/100-influential-tech-people-on-twitter-2014-4#99-zeynep-tufekci-2|work=Business Insider|date=14 April 2014}}</ref>
* 2014: [[Business Insider]], The 100 Most Influential Tech People On Twitter<ref name=2014-BusinessInsider-100Tech>{{cite news|last1=Borison|first1=Rebecca|title=Presenting: The 100 Most Influential Tech People On Twitter; 99. Zeynep Tufekci|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/100-influential-tech-people-on-twitter-2014-4#99-zeynep-tufekci-2|work=Business Insider|date=April 14, 2014}}</ref>
* 2014: [[American Sociological Association]], The Section on Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology's Award for Public Sociology<ref name=2014-ASA-Award>{{cite news|title=Section on Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology Past Award Recipients|url=https://www.asanet.org/asa-communities/asa-sections/current-sections/communication-information-technologies-and-media-sociology/section-communication-information-technologies-and-media-sociology-past-award-recipients|work=American Sociological Association|date=2014|language=en}}</ref>
* 2014: [[American Sociological Association]], The Section on Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology's Award for Public Sociology<ref name=2014-ASA-Award>{{cite news|title=Section on Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology Past Award Recipients|url=https://www.asanet.org/asa-communities/asa-sections/current-sections/communication-information-technologies-and-media-sociology/section-communication-information-technologies-and-media-sociology-past-award-recipients|work=American Sociological Association|date=2014|language=en}}</ref>
* 2015-2016: [[Carnegie Corporation of New York]], Andrew Carnegie Fellow in the Social Sciences and Humanities<ref name=2015-Carnegie-CarnegieFellow>{{cite web|title=2015 Andrew Carnegie Fellows Recipient: Zeynep Tufekci|url=https://www.carnegie.org/awards/honoree/zeynep-tufekci/|website=Carnegie Corporation of New York|language=en|date=2015}}</ref>
* 2015-2016: [[Carnegie Corporation of New York]], Andrew Carnegie Fellow in the Social Sciences and Humanities<ref name=2015-Carnegie-CarnegieFellow>{{cite web|title=2015 Andrew Carnegie Fellows Recipient: Zeynep Tufekci|url=https://www.carnegie.org/awards/honoree/zeynep-tufekci/|website=Carnegie Corporation of New York|language=en|date=2015}}</ref>
* 2022: Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree, [[Brown University]]<ref name="browndegree">{{cite web |last1=Clark |first1=Brian E. |title=Brown to confer nine honorary degrees during Commencement and Reunion Weekend |url=https://www.brown.edu/news/2022-05-06/honorary |website=News from Brown |publisher=Brown University |access-date=24 May 2022}}</ref>
* 2022: Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree, [[Brown University]]<ref name="browndegree">{{cite web |last1=Clark |first1=Brian E. |title=Brown to confer nine honorary degrees during Commencement and Reunion Weekend |url=https://www.brown.edu/news/2022-05-06/honorary |website=News from Brown |publisher=Brown University |access-date=May 24, 2022}}</ref>


==Works==
==Works==
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===Books===
===Books===
* {{cite book |author=Tufekci, Zeynep |title=[[Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest|Twitter and tear gas : the power and fragility of networked protest]] |date=2017 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven, Conn. <!--|isbn=978-0-300-21512-0 |isbn=9780300228175 |oclc=1156747307-->}}
* {{cite book |author=Tufekci, Zeynep |title=[[Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest]] |date=2017 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=9780274756650 |location=New Haven, Conn. <!--|isbn=978-0-300-21512-0 |isbn=9780300228175 |oclc=1156747307-->}}


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===Essays and reporting===
===Essays and reporting===
* {{cite journal|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title=Grooming, Gossip, Facebook and MySpace|journal=Information, Communication & Society|date=June 2008|volume=11|issue=4|pages=544–564|doi=10.1080/13691180801999050|s2cid=146742025|doi-access=free}} {{Wikidata+icon|Q56060042|y}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title=Grooming, Gossip, Facebook and MySpace|journal=Information, Communication & Society|date=June 2008|volume=11|issue=4|pages=544–564|doi=10.1080/13691180801999050|s2cid=146742025|doi-access=free}} {{Wikidata+icon|Q56060042|y}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title=Can You See Me Now? Audience and Disclosure Regulation in Online Social Network Sites|journal=Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society|date=27 December 2007|volume=28|issue=1|pages=20–36|doi=10.1177/0270467607311484|s2cid=145666331}} {{Wikidata+icon|Q56807564|y}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title=Can You See Me Now? Audience and Disclosure Regulation in Online Social Network Sites|journal=Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society|date=December 27, 2007|volume=28|issue=1|pages=20–36|doi=10.1177/0270467607311484|s2cid=145666331}} {{Wikidata+icon|Q56807564|y}}
* {{cite book|editor1-last=Straubhaar|editor1-first=Joseph D.|editor2-last=Spence|editor2-first=Jeremiah|editor3-last=Tufekci|editor3-first=Zeynep|editor4-last=Lentz|editor4-first=Roberta G.|title=Inequity in the Technopolis Race, Class, Gender, and the Digital Divide in Austin|date=2012|publisher=University of Texas Press|location=Austin|isbn=978-0-292-72871-4|oclc=951973487}}
* {{cite book|editor1-last=Straubhaar|editor1-first=Joseph D.|editor2-last=Spence|editor2-first=Jeremiah|editor3-last=Tufekci|editor3-first=Zeynep|editor4-last=Lentz|editor4-first=Roberta G.|title=Inequity in the Technopolis Race, Class, Gender, and the Digital Divide in Austin|date=2012|publisher=University of Texas Press|location=Austin|isbn=978-0-292-72871-4|oclc=951973487}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|last2=Wilson|first2=Christopher|title=Social Media and the Decision to Participate in Political Protest: Observations From Tahrir Square|journal=Journal of Communication|date=April 2012|volume=62|issue=2|pages=363–379|doi=10.1111/J.1460-2466.2012.01629.X|s2cid=11666849 |url=https://academic.oup.com/joc/article-abstract/62/2/363/4085823}} {{Wikidata+icon|Q59344788|y}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|last2=Wilson|first2=Christopher|title=Social Media and the Decision to Participate in Political Protest: Observations From Tahrir Square|journal=Journal of Communication|date=April 2012|volume=62|issue=2|pages=363–379|doi=10.1111/J.1460-2466.2012.01629.X|s2cid=11666849 |url=https://academic.oup.com/joc/article-abstract/62/2/363/4085823}} {{Wikidata+icon|Q59344788|y}}
* {{cite magazine|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title=In Defense of Nate Silver, Election Pollsters, and Statistical Predictions|url=https://www.wired.com/2012/11/why-predictions-and-statistical-models-are-necessary-and-good-for-democracy/|magazine=Wired|date=2 November 2012}}
* {{cite magazine|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title=In Defense of Nate Silver, Election Pollsters, and Statistical Predictions|url=https://www.wired.com/2012/11/why-predictions-and-statistical-models-are-necessary-and-good-for-democracy/|magazine=Wired|date=November 2, 2012}}
* {{cite news|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title=Opinion: Beware the Smart Campaign |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/17/opinion/beware-the-big-data-campaign.html|work=The New York Times|date=16 November 2012}}
* {{cite news|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title=Opinion: Beware the Smart Campaign |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/17/opinion/beware-the-big-data-campaign.html|work=The New York Times|date=November 16, 2012}}
* {{cite news|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title=The Media Needs to Stop Inspiring Copycat Murders. Here's How.|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/12/the-media-needs-to-stop-inspiring-copycat-murders-heres-how/266439/|work=The Atlantic|date=19 December 2012}}
* {{cite news|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title=The Media Needs to Stop Inspiring Copycat Murders. Here's How.|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/12/the-media-needs-to-stop-inspiring-copycat-murders-heres-how/266439/|work=The Atlantic|date=December 19, 2012}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title=Engineering the public: Big data, surveillance and computational politics|journal=First Monday|volume=19|issue=7|date=7 July 2014|doi=10.5210/FM.V19i7.4901|url=https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4901}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title=Engineering the public: Big data, surveillance and computational politics|journal=First Monday|volume=19|issue=7|date=July 7, 2014|doi=10.5210/FM.V19i7.4901|url=https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4901}}
* {{cite news|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title=Opinion: How Hope Returned to Turkey|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/10/opinion/how-hope-returned-to-turkey.html|work=The New York Times|date=9 June 2015}}
* {{cite news|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title=Opinion: How Hope Returned to Turkey|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/10/opinion/how-hope-returned-to-turkey.html|work=The New York Times|date=June 9, 2015}}
* {{cite news|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title=Opinion: The Virginia Shooter Wanted Fame. Let's Not Give It to Him.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/opinion/the-virginia-shooter-wanted-fame-lets-not-give-it-to-him.html|work=The New York Times|date=27 August 2015}}
* {{cite news|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title=Opinion: The Virginia Shooter Wanted Fame. Let's Not Give It to Him.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/opinion/the-virginia-shooter-wanted-fame-lets-not-give-it-to-him.html|work=The New York Times|date=August 27, 2015}}
* {{cite news|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title=Opinion: Why the Post Office Makes America Great|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/03/opinion/why-the-post-office-makes-america-great.html|work=The New York Times|date=1 January 2016}}
* {{cite news|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title=Opinion: Why the Post Office Makes America Great|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/03/opinion/why-the-post-office-makes-america-great.html|work=The New York Times|date=January 1, 2016}}
* {{cite news|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title=Opinion: WikiLeaks Isn't Whistleblowing|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/05/opinion/what-were-missing-while-we-obsess-over-john-podestas-email.html|work=The New York Times|date=4 November 2016}}
* {{cite news|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title=Opinion: WikiLeaks Isn't Whistleblowing|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/05/opinion/what-were-missing-while-we-obsess-over-john-podestas-email.html|work=The New York Times|date=November 4, 2016}}
* {{cite news|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title=Opinion: Equifax's Maddening Unaccountability|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/opinion/equifax-accountability-security.html|work=The New York Times|date=11 September 2017}}
* {{cite news|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title=Opinion: Equifax's Maddening Unaccountability|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/opinion/equifax-accountability-security.html|work=The New York Times|date=September 11, 2017}}
* {{cite magazine|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title='He Who Must Not Be Named': What Infowars' Alex Jones and Voldemort Have in Common|url=https://www.wired.com/story/infowars-alex-jones-voldemort-platform-attention-gaming/|magazine=WIRED|date=19 November 2018|language=en-us}}
* {{cite magazine|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title='He Who Must Not Be Named': What Infowars' Alex Jones and Voldemort Have in Common|url=https://www.wired.com/story/infowars-alex-jones-voldemort-platform-attention-gaming/|magazine=WIRED|date=November 19, 2018|language=en-us}}
* {{cite journal |author=Tufekci, Zeynep |date=Winter 2019 |title=Secure the vote |journal=Carnegie Reporter |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=16–23 |url=https://www.carnegie.org/publications/carnegie-reporter-vol-11number-1/|access-date=2020-11-09}}
* {{cite journal |author=Tufekci, Zeynep |date=Winter 2019 |title=Secure the vote |journal=Carnegie Reporter |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=16–23 |url=https://www.carnegie.org/publications/carnegie-reporter-vol-11number-1/|access-date=November 9, 2020}}
* {{cite magazine|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title=Yes, Big Platforms Could Change Their Business Models|url=https://www.wired.com/story/big-platforms-could-change-business-models/|magazine=Wired|date=17 December 2018|language=en-us}}
* {{cite magazine|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title=Yes, Big Platforms Could Change Their Business Models|url=https://www.wired.com/story/big-platforms-could-change-business-models/|magazine=Wired|date=December 17, 2018|language=en-us}}
* {{cite news|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title=Opinion: Zuckerberg's So-Called Shift Toward Privacy|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/07/opinion/zuckerberg-privacy-facebook.html|work=The New York Times|date=7 March 2019}}
* {{cite news|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title=Opinion: Zuckerberg's So-Called Shift Toward Privacy|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/07/opinion/zuckerberg-privacy-facebook.html|work=The New York Times|date=March 7, 2019}}
* {{cite news|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title=Should Kids Learn to Code? Not necessarily!|url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/should-kids-learn-to-code/|work=Scientific American|date=7 August 2019}}
* {{cite news|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title=Should Kids Learn to Code? Not necessarily!|url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/should-kids-learn-to-code/|work=Scientific American|date=August 7, 2019}}
* {{cite news|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title=How Hong Kong Did It: With the government flailing, the city's citizens decided to organize their own coronavirus response|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/05/how-hong-kong-beating-coronavirus/611524/|work=The Atlantic|date=12 May 2020}}
* {{cite news|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title=How Hong Kong Did It: With the government flailing, the city's citizens decided to organize their own coronavirus response|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/05/how-hong-kong-beating-coronavirus/611524/|work=The Atlantic|date=May 12, 2020}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Howard|first1=Jeremy|last2=Huang|first2=Austin|last3=Li|first3=Zhiyuan|last4=Tufekci|first4=Zeynep|last5=Zdimal|first5=Vladimir|last6=van der Westhuizen|first6=Helene-Mari|last7=von Delft|first7=Arne|last8=Price|first8=Amy|last9=Fridman|first9=Lex|last10=Tang|first10=Lei-Han|last11=Tang|first11=Viola|last12=Watson|first12=Gregory L.|last13=Bax|first13=Christina E.|last14=Shaikh|first14=Reshama|last15=Questier|first15=Frederik|last16=Hernandez|first16=Danny|last17=Chu|first17=Larry F.|last18=Ramirez|first18=Christina M.|last19=Rimoin|first19=Anne W.|title=Face Masks Against COVID-19: An Evidence Review |journal= Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|date= 26 January 2021|volume=118|issue=4|doi=10.1073/pnas.2014564118 |pmid=33431650|pmc=7848583|doi-access=free}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Howard|first1=Jeremy|last2=Huang|first2=Austin|last3=Li|first3=Zhiyuan|last4=Tufekci|first4=Zeynep|last5=Zdimal|first5=Vladimir|last6=van der Westhuizen|first6=Helene-Mari|last7=von Delft|first7=Arne|last8=Price|first8=Amy|last9=Fridman|first9=Lex|last10=Tang|first10=Lei-Han|last11=Tang|first11=Viola|last12=Watson|first12=Gregory L.|last13=Bax|first13=Christina E.|last14=Shaikh|first14=Reshama|last15=Questier|first15=Frederik|last16=Hernandez|first16=Danny|last17=Chu|first17=Larry F.|last18=Ramirez|first18=Christina M.|last19=Rimoin|first19=Anne W.|title=Face Masks Against COVID-19: An Evidence Review |journal= Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|date= January 26, 2021|volume=118|issue=4|doi=10.1073/pnas.2014564118 |pmid=33431650|pmc=7848583|doi-access=free}}
* {{cite news|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title=We Need to Talk About Ventilation: How is it that six months into a respiratory pandemic, we are still doing so little to mitigate airborne transmission?|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/07/why-arent-we-talking-more-about-airborne-transmission/614737/|work=The Atlantic|date=30 July 2020}}
* {{cite news|last1=Tufekci|first1=Zeynep|title=We Need to Talk About Ventilation: How is it that six months into a respiratory pandemic, we are still doing so little to mitigate airborne transmission?|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/07/why-arent-we-talking-more-about-airborne-transmission/614737/|work=The Atlantic|date=July 30, 2020}}
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===Theses===
===Theses===
* {{cite thesis|last=Tufekci|first=Zeynep|date=1999|title=Mental Deskilling in the Age of the Smart Machine|type=M.A.|publisher=University of Texas at Austin}}
* {{cite thesis |last=Tufekcioglu |first=Zeynep S |date=1999 |title=Mental Deskilling in the Age of the Smart Machine |type=M.A. |publisher=University of Texas at Austin, Department of Radio-Television-Film }}

* {{cite thesis|last=Tufekci|first=Zeynep|date=2004|title=In Search of Lost Jobs: The Rhetoric and Practice of Computer Skills Training|type=Ph.D.|publisher=University of Texas at Austin}}
* {{cite thesis|last=Tufekci|first=Zeynep|date=2004|title=In Search of Lost Jobs: The Rhetoric and Practice of Computer Skills Training|type=Ph.D.|publisher=University of Texas at Austin}}

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* Tufekci, Zeynep (June 2016) {{TED talk|zeynep_tufekci_machine_intelligence_makes_human_morals_more_important|Machine intelligence makes human morals more important}}
* Tufekci, Zeynep (September 2017) {{TED talk|zeynep_tufekci_we_re_building_a_dystopia_just_to_make_people_click_on_ads|We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads}}<ref name=2017-Mashable-FacebookPolitics />
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===Critical studies and reviews of Tufekci's work===
===Critical studies and reviews of Tufekci's work===
;''Twitter and tear gas''
;''Twitter and tear gas''
*{{cite magazine |author=Heller, Nathan |date=August 21, 2017 |title=Out of action : do protests work? |department=The Critics. A Critic at Large |magazine=The New Yorker |volume=93 |issue=24 |pages=70–77 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/21/is-there-any-point-to-protesting <!--|access-date=2017-12-19-->}}<ref>Online version is titled "Is there any point to protesting?"</ref>
*{{cite magazine |author=Heller, Nathan |date=August 21, 2017 |title=Out of Action: Do Protests Work? |department=The Critics. A Critic at Large |magazine=The New Yorker |volume=93 |issue=24 |pages=70–77 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/21/is-there-any-point-to-protesting <!--|access-date=2017-12-19-->}}<ref>Online version is titled "Is there any point to protesting?"</ref>


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Zeynep Tufekci
Tufekci in 2019
Born
Istanbul, Turkey
Occupation(s)Sociologist
Writer
Years active1999–present
TitleProfessor
Academic background
EducationIstanbul University
Boğaziçi University
University of Texas at Austin
Academic work
DisciplineSociologist
Sub-disciplineComplex Systems
Science and Technology
InstitutionsUniversity of Maryland Baltimore County
Princeton University
Columbia University
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The New York Times
The Atlantic
Websitewww.theinsight.org

Zeynep Tufekci (Turkish: Zeynep Tüfekçi; [zejˈnep tyˈfektʃi]; zay-NEP tuu-FEK-chee) is a Turkish-American sociologist, and the Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs[1] at Princeton University. She is also a columnist for The New York Times. Her work focuses on social media, media ethics, the social implications of new technologies, such as artificial intelligence and big data, as well as societal challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic using complex and systems-based thinking. According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, she is one of the most prominent academic voices on social media and the new public sphere.[2][3] In 2022, Tufekci was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her "insightful, often prescient, columns on the pandemic and American culture", which the committee said "brought clarity to the shifting official guidance and compelled us towards greater compassion and informed response."[4]

Before becoming a regular columnist, she was a frequent contributor to The New York Times and The Atlantic. She has also written columns for Wired and Scientific American. Prior to Princeton, she was a professor at Columbia University's Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security, a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University,[5][6][7] and an associate professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina and Associate Professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

Early life and education

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Tufekci was born in Istanbul, Turkey, near Taksim Gezi Park in Istanbul's Beyoğlu district.[8] In 1995, Tufekci received a B.A. in sociology from Istanbul University, as well as an undergraduate degree in computer programming from Boğaziçi University.[9] Tufekci earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.[9][10]

Career

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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 COVID-19 pandemic, Tufekci was critical of the mainstream media for failing to explain the importance of mask wearing, and is often cited as one of the first to take up the importance of mask wearing in the mainstream media.[23][24] This led to Tufekci becoming one of the academics who advised the WHO on adopting a mask recommendation.[25][26] In addition to her mainstream media writing during the COVID-19 pandemic, Tufekci has co-authored articles published in peer reviewed academic journals reviewing evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 virus is airborne, with British medical professor Trisha Greenhalgh[27] and environmental engineering professor Linsey Marr.[28]

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

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Works

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Books

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  • Tufekci, Zeynep (2017). Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780274756650.

Theses

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  • 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.
  • Tufekci, Zeynep (2004). In Search of Lost Jobs: The Rhetoric and Practice of Computer Skills Training (Ph.D.). University of Texas at Austin.

Critical studies and reviews of Tufekci's work

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Twitter and tear gas

References

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  1. ^ Tufekci, Zeynep. "Zeynep Tufekci". sociology.princeton.edu/. Retrieved August 22, 2023.
  2. ^ Brown, Sarah. "Meet the Professor Who's Warning the World About Facebook and Google". www.chronicle.com. Retrieved October 15, 2020.
  3. ^ a b Smith, Ben (August 23, 2020). "How Zeynep Tufekci Keeps Getting the Big Things Right". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 15, 2020.
  4. ^ "Finalist: Zeynep Tufekci". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved August 31, 2022.
  5. ^ a b Abbruzzese, Jason (November 3, 2017). "Zeynep Tufekci tried to warn us about Facebook and politics back in 2012". Mashable.
  6. ^ Columbia Journalism School. "Dr. Zeynep Tufekci to Join Columbia Journalism School's Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security". March 25, 2021.
  7. ^ Tufekci, Zeynep (June 9, 2015). "Opinion: How Hope Returned to Turkey". The New York Times.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ "Zeynep Tufekci Columbia bio". journalism.columbia.edu. Columbia University School of Journalism. Retrieved April 26, 2023.
  10. ^ "Zeynep Tufekci, CV Princeton".
  11. ^ "Zeynep Tufekci, Faculty Associate". Berkman Klein Center. Harvard University. March 24, 2020.
  12. ^ Tufekci, Zeynep (November 16, 2012). "Opinion: Beware the Smart Campaign". The New York Times.
  13. ^ Frank, Russell (February 16, 2018). "The media need to think twice about how they portray mass shooters". The Conversation.
  14. ^ Tufekci, Zeynep (December 19, 2012). "The Media Needs to Stop Inspiring Copycat Murders. Here's How". The Atlantic.
  15. ^ Tufekci, Zeynep (August 27, 2015). "Opinion: The Virginia Shooter Wanted Fame. Let's Not Give It to Him". The New York Times.
  16. ^ Lopez, German (August 28, 2015). "Mass shooters want fame. Here's why we should stop giving it to them". Vox.
  17. ^ "Texas police stop naming killer in aftermath of shootings, hoping to discourage copycats". CBC News. Associated Press. November 7, 2017.
  18. ^ Schulman, Ari N. (November 17, 2017). "How Not to Cover Mass Shootings". Wall Street Journal.
  19. ^ Lopatto, Elizabeth (August 27, 2015). "How do we stop killers from exploiting social media?". The Verge.
  20. ^ "Special report: Politics by numbers: Voters in America, and increasingly elsewhere too, are being ever more precisely targeted". The Economist. March 23, 2016.
  21. ^ 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.
  22. ^ Meylan, Phillip (March 31, 2020). "Did the Media Miss the Mark on Masks?". The Factual.
  23. ^ 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.
  24. ^ 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.
  25. ^ Smith, Ben (August 23, 2020). "How Zeynep Tufekci Keeps Getting the Big Things Right". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
  26. ^ Greenhalgh, Trisha; Jimenez, Jose L; Prather, Kimberly A; Tufekci, Zeynep; Fisman, David; Schooley, Robert (May 2021). "Ten scientific reasons in support of airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2". The Lancet. 397 (10285): 1603–1605. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(21)00869-2. ISSN 0140-6736. PMC 8049599. PMID 33865497.
  27. ^ Wang, Chia C.; Prather, Kimberly A.; Sznitman, Josué; Jimenez, Jose L.; Lakdawala, Seema S.; Tufekci, Zeynep; Marr, Linsey C. (August 27, 2021). "Airborne transmission of respiratory viruses". Science. 373 (6558): eabd9149. doi:10.1126/science.abd9149. ISSN 0036-8075. PMC 8721651. PMID 34446582. S2CID 237308712.
  28. ^ Abbruzzese, Jason (November 3, 2017). "Zeynep Tufekci tried to warn us about Facebook and politics back in 2012". Mashable.
  29. ^ "Zeynep Tufekci". WIRED Magazine. 2019.
  30. ^ "Top Eight Papers in Communication and Technology, Part 2". International Communication Association. May 29, 2005.
  31. ^ "Berkman Center Announces 2011-2012 Fellows". The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. June 12, 2018.
  32. ^ "Fellows: Zeynep Tufekci (2012-2014)". Center for Information Technology Policy. Princeton University. 2012.
  33. ^ Borison, Rebecca (April 14, 2014). "Presenting: The 100 Most Influential Tech People On Twitter; 99. Zeynep Tufekci". Business Insider.
  34. ^ "Section on Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology Past Award Recipients". American Sociological Association. 2014.
  35. ^ "2015 Andrew Carnegie Fellows Recipient: Zeynep Tufekci". Carnegie Corporation of New York. 2015.
  36. ^ Clark, Brian E. "Brown to confer nine honorary degrees during Commencement and Reunion Weekend". News from Brown. Brown University. Retrieved May 24, 2022.
  37. ^ Online version is titled "Is there any point to protesting?"
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