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Zeynep Tufekci | |
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Born | Istanbul, Turkey |
Occupation(s) | Propagandist Propagandist< |
Years active | 1999–present |
Title | Professor |
Academic background | |
Education | Istanbul University Boğaziçi University University of Texas at Austin |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Propagandist |
Sub-discipline | Social media Technology |
Institutions | Columbia University University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The New York Times The Atlantic |
Website | www |
Zeynep Tufekci (Template:Lang-tr; [zejˈnep tyˈfektʃi]; zay-NEP tuu-FEK-chee) is a Turkish-American sociologist. A professor at Columbia University, she also writes as 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.[1][2] 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.”[3]
Before becoming a regular columnist, she occasionally wrote for The New York Times and The Atlantic and wrote columns for Wired and Scientific American. She is a professor at Columbia University's Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security and a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.[4][5][6] She was previously an associate professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina.
Early life and education
Tufekci was born in Istanbul, Turkey, near Taksim Gezi Park in Istanbul's Beyoğlu district.[7]
In 1995, Tufekci received a B.A. in sociology from Istanbul University, as well as an undergraduate degree in computer programming from Boğaziçi University.[8]
Career
Tufekci worked as a computer programmer before becoming an academic and turning her attention to social science.[2]
In 2012, Tufekci became a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society research facility at Harvard University.[9]
In 2012, Tufekci expressed concern about political campaigns impacted by and driven by big data in the form of "Smart Campaigns".[10] This early warning was eventually recognized as prescient after Donald Trump was elected in 2016.[5]
Also from 2012, Tufekci has focused on explaining social contagion and mass shootings and its direct relation to social media.[11][12][13] She has repeatedly urged both online and in op-eds[14] that outlets should avoid repetition of the killer's name and face as well as step-by-step discussions of their methods.[15][16] The phenomenon of suicide contagion via social media and news coverage is part of Tufekci's analytical work.[17]
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.[18]
In May 2017, Tufekci's first book, Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest, was published by Yale University Press.[19]
She was a regular contributor at Wired.[20]
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.[21][22] This led to Tufekci becoming one of the academics who advised the WHO on adopting a mask recommendation.[23][24]
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[25] and environmental engineering professor Linsey Marr.[26]
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.[27]
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?"[28]
- 2011-2012: The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, Fellow[29]
- 2012-2013: Princeton University, Center for Information Technology Policy, Fellow[30]
- 2014: Business Insider, The 100 Most Influential Tech People On Twitter[31]
- 2014: American Sociological Association, The Section on Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology's Award for Public Sociology[32]
- 2015-2016: Carnegie Corporation of New York, Andrew Carnegie Fellow in the Social Sciences and Humanities[33]
- 2022: Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree, Brown University[34]
Works
Books
- Tufekci, Zeynep (2017). Twitter and tear gas : the power and fragility of networked protest. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press.
Essays and reporting
- Tufekci, Zeynep (June 2008). "Grooming, Gossip, Facebook and MySpace". Information, Communication & Society. 11 (4): 544–564. doi:10.1080/13691180801999050. S2CID 146742025. Wikidata ()
- Tufekci, Zeynep (27 December 2007). "Can You See Me Now? Audience and Disclosure Regulation in Online Social Network Sites". Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society. 28 (1): 20–36. doi:10.1177/0270467607311484. S2CID 145666331. Wikidata ()
- Straubhaar, Joseph D.; Spence, Jeremiah; Tufekci, Zeynep; Lentz, Roberta G., eds. (2012). Inequity in the Technopolis Race, Class, Gender, and the Digital Divide in Austin. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-72871-4. OCLC 951973487.
- Tufekci, Zeynep; Wilson, Christopher (April 2012). "Social Media and the Decision to Participate in Political Protest: Observations From Tahrir Square". Journal of Communication. 62 (2): 363–379. doi:10.1111/J.1460-2466.2012.01629.X. S2CID 11666849. Wikidata ()
- Tufekci, Zeynep (2 November 2012). "In Defense of Nate Silver, Election Pollsters, and Statistical Predictions". Wired.
- Tufekci, Zeynep (16 November 2012). "Opinion: Beware the Smart Campaign". The New York Times.
- Tufekci, Zeynep (19 December 2012). "The Media Needs to Stop Inspiring Copycat Murders. Here's How". The Atlantic.
- Tufekci, Zeynep (7 July 2014). "Engineering the public: Big data, surveillance and computational politics". First Monday. 19 (7). doi:10.5210/FM.V19i7.4901.
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: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - Tufekci, Zeynep (9 June 2015). "Opinion: How Hope Returned to Turkey". The New York Times.
- Tufekci, Zeynep (27 August 2015). "Opinion: The Virginia Shooter Wanted Fame. Let's Not Give It to Him". The New York Times.
- Tufekci, Zeynep (1 January 2016). "Opinion: Why the Post Office Makes America Great". The New York Times.
- Tufekci, Zeynep (4 November 2016). "Opinion: WikiLeaks Isn't Whistleblowing". The New York Times.
- Tufekci, Zeynep (11 September 2017). "Opinion: Equifax's Maddening Unaccountability". The New York Times.
- Tufekci, Zeynep (19 November 2018). "'He Who Must Not Be Named': What Infowars' Alex Jones and Voldemort Have in Common". WIRED.
- Tufekci, Zeynep (Winter 2019). "Secure the vote". Carnegie Reporter. 11 (1): 16–23.
- Tufekci, Zeynep (17 December 2018). "Yes, Big Platforms Could Change Their Business Models". Wired.
- Tufekci, Zeynep (7 March 2019). "Opinion: Zuckerberg's So-Called Shift Toward Privacy". The New York Times.
- Tufekci, Zeynep (7 August 2019). "Should Kids Learn to Code? Not necessarily!". Scientific American.
- Tufekci, Zeynep (12 May 2020). "How Hong Kong Did It: With the government flailing, the city's citizens decided to organize their own coronavirus response". The Atlantic.
- Howard, Jeremy; Huang, Austin; Li, Zhiyuan; Tufekci, Zeynep; Zdimal, Vladimir; van der Westhuizen, Helene-Mari; von Delft, Arne; Price, Amy; Fridman, Lex; Tang, Lei-Han; Tang, Viola; Watson, Gregory L.; Bax, Christina E.; Shaikh, Reshama; Questier, Frederik; Hernandez, Danny; Chu, Larry F.; Ramirez, Christina M.; Rimoin, Anne W. (26 January 2021). "Face Masks Against COVID-19: An Evidence Review". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118 (4). doi:10.1073/pnas.2014564118. PMC 7848583. PMID 33431650.
- Tufekci, Zeynep (30 July 2020). "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?". The Atlantic.
Theses
- Tufekci, Zeynep (1999). Mental Deskilling in the Age of the Smart Machine (M.A.). University of Texas at Austin.
- Tufekci, Zeynep (2004). In Search of Lost Jobs: The Rhetoric and Practice of Computer Skills Training (Ph.D.). University of Texas at Austin.
TED talks
- Tufekci, Zeynep (October 2014) Online social change: easy to organize, hard to win, a TED talk Wikidata ()
- Tufekci, Zeynep (June 2016) Machine intelligence makes human morals more important, a TED talk
- Tufekci, Zeynep (September 2017) We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads, a TED talk[27]
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.[35]
References
- ^ Brown, Sarah. "Meet the Professor Who's Warning the World About Facebook and Google". www.chronicle.com. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
- ^ a b Smith, Ben (2020-08-23). "How Zeynep Tufekci Keeps Getting the Big Things Right". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
- ^ "Finalist: Zeynep Tufekci". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2022-08-31.
- ^ Singal, Jesse (27 July 2016). "Why Did WikiLeaks Help Dox Most of Turkey's Adult Female Population?". Intelligencer. New York.
- ^ a b Abbruzzese, Jason (3 November 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 (9 June 2015). "Opinion: How Hope Returned to Turkey". The New York Times.
- ^ "Zeynep Tufekci | sils.unc.edu". sils.unc.edu. University of North Carolina. Retrieved 2020-10-17.
- ^ "Zeynep Tufekci, Faculty Associate". Berkman Klein Center. Harvard University. 24 March 2020.
- ^ Tufekci, Zeynep (16 November 2012). "Opinion: Beware the Smart Campaign". The New York Times.
- ^ Frank, Russell (16 February 2018). "The media need to think twice about how they portray mass shooters". The Conversation.
- ^ Tufekci, Zeynep (19 December 2012). "The Media Needs to Stop Inspiring Copycat Murders. Here's How". The Atlantic.
- ^ Tufekci, Zeynep (27 August 2015). "Opinion: The Virginia Shooter Wanted Fame. Let's Not Give It to Him". The New York Times.
- ^ Lopez, German (28 August 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. 7 November 2017.
- ^ Schulman, Ari N. (17 November 2017). "How Not to Cover Mass Shootings". Wall Street Journal.
- ^ Lopatto, Elizabeth (27 August 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. 23 March 2016.
- ^ Heller, Nathan (14 August 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.
- ^ "Zeynep Tufekci". WIRED Magazine. 2019.
- ^ Meylan, Phillip (31 March 2020). "Did the Media Miss the Mark on Masks?". The Factual.
- ^ Witte, Griff; Cha, Ariana Eunjung; Dawsey, Josh (28 July 2020). "At the heart of dismal U.S. coronavirus response, a fraught relationship with masks". The Washington Post.
- ^ Tufekci, Zeynep [@zeynep] (29 July 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.
- ^ Smith, Ben (2020-08-23). "How Zeynep Tufekci Keeps Getting the Big Things Right". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-08-24.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Wang, Chia C.; Prather, Kimberly A.; Sznitman, Josué; Jimenez, Jose L.; Lakdawala, Seema S.; Tufekci, Zeynep; Marr, Linsey C. (2021-08-27). "Airborne transmission of respiratory viruses". Science. 373 (6558): eabd9149. Bibcode:2021Sci...373.....W. doi:10.1126/science.abd9149. ISSN 0036-8075. PMC 8721651. PMID 34446582. S2CID 237308712.
- ^ a b Abbruzzese, Jason (3 November 2017). "Zeynep Tufekci tried to warn us about Facebook and politics back in 2012". Mashable.
- ^ "Top Eight Papers in Communication and Technology, Part 2". International Communication Association. 29 May 2005.
- ^ "Berkman Center Announces 2011-2012 Fellows". The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. 12 June 2018.
- ^ "Fellows: Zeynep Tufekci (2012-2014)". Center for Information Technology Policy. Princeton University. 2012.
- ^ Borison, Rebecca (14 April 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 24 May 2022.
- ^ Online version is titled "Is there any point to protesting?"
External links
- Official website
- Zeynep Tufekci 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
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