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27 Dec 2023, 3:25 am
"Writes Zeynep Tufekci — a professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University — in "Avert Your Eyes, Avoid Responsibility and Just Blame TikTok" (NYT). [read post]
18 Dec 2023, 11:59 am
As Professor Zeynep Tufekci noted in a recent NY Times column, “I was happy to see Apple switch the defaults for tracking in 2021, but I’m not happy that it was because of a decision by one powerful company—what oligopoly giveth, oligopoly can taketh away. [read post]
21 Aug 2022, 9:01 pm
Today [August 11], the Federal Trade Commission initiated a proceeding to examine whether we should implement new rules addressing data practices that are unfair or deceptive. [read post]
13 Jun 2022, 6:06 am
As sociologist Zeynep Tufekci explains, it is difficult for most people to live their lives and fully withdraw from the use of digital communications technologies, services, and platforms generating the data that will provide leads and telltale signs (what prosecutors call evidence) about women seeking or obtaining abortions and those providing abortion services. [read post]
3 Feb 2022, 3:07 pm
YouTube is one of the most popular social media site among teens: After Zeynep Tufekci, an associate professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, School of Information and Library Science, spent time searching for videos on YouTube and observed what the algorithm told her to watch next, she suggested that it was “one of the most powerful radicalizing instruments of the 21st century. [read post]
13 Nov 2020, 7:27 am
Professor Zeynep Tufekci, a techno-sociologist at the University of North Carolina who writes publicly on pandemic response for outlets including The Atlantic and is a member of the Berkman Klein Center’s Digital Pandemic Response Working Group, joins Drs. [read post]
7 Oct 2020, 9:48 am
As Zeynep Tufekci wrote recently in the Atlantic, “this disease stalks us indoors”—likely because of accumulations of virus particles in currents of air within closed rooms. [read post]
4 Oct 2020, 6:51 am
Right now, in my opinion as someone who has done a ton of reading about Covid-19, the most best accessible information on how individuals and societies can protect themselves and others during the pandemic (and why) is available in Jimenez’s Time article, Aaron Carroll’s NY Times piece about how to think about risk management, Zeynep Tufekci’s piece in the Atlantic about dispersion and superspreading, and now this Google Doc by Jimenez et al. [read post]
1 Oct 2020, 3:30 am
Tiffert shows that digitization makes it possible for censorship to disappear into the apparently limitless, but silently curated, torrents of information now available—adding a valuable example to Zeynep Tufekci’s catalog of ways that information is distorted online. [read post]
30 Sep 2020, 10:47 am
Many of them, as professor of sociology and technology Zeynep Tufekci argues, are merely “performative” on the part of college administrators — an effort to make a show that they are doing something — and will likely prove to be actively counterproductive. [read post]
27 Aug 2020, 2:42 am
Zeynep Tufekci who are really the best situated to understand how information (or “the truth”) needs to be exposed to the public. [read post]
19 Apr 2020, 9:12 pm
Writing in The Atlantic, Zeynep Tufekci of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill suggests that the government should eliminate the very worst-case scenarios. [read post]
13 May 2019, 11:33 am
If the UKSC is referring to the private citizen and her postings, it may be worthwhile factoring in the role of social media during the ‘Arab Spring’ – a topic explored in detail by Zeynep Tufekci in Twitter and Tear Gas (Yale University Press, 2017). [read post]
22 Oct 2018, 6:01 am
As Zeynep Tufekci tweeted years ago, Myanmar may well be the first social-media fueled ethnic cleansing. [read post]
26 Apr 2018, 4:00 am
— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) July 22, 2013 That is to say: The recent events were not only foreseeable, but they were actually foreseen. [read post]
2 Apr 2018, 9:05 pm
” [William Echikson, Politico Europe] Pro-censorship UNC professor and New York Times contributing op-ed writer (and what a phrase that is to type) recalls days when media had but one throat to squeeze [David Henderson on Zeynep Tufekci in Wired] How Facebook recently navigated pressures on hosting a group whose leaders were prosecuted under British hate-speech laws [John Samples, Cato] From LBJ and Nixon to Trump and Elizabeth Warren, “regulation is an inherently… [read post]
17 Mar 2018, 11:56 am
That’s a legitimate concern, for sure, but in this instance it’s melded with blithe urgings that the state get in and impose its ideological will on content, as if that wouldn’t raise dangers of its own [Zeynep Tufekci, New York Times] Note also a body of research contrary to the notion that social media encourages the formation of ideological bubbles and reinforcement [John Samples, Cato; [Michael A. [read post]
12 Mar 2018, 5:11 pm
[Zeynep Tufekci is an associate professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina] [read post]
14 Nov 2017, 3:30 am
Zeynep Tufekci, Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest (2017). [read post]
12 May 2017, 10:27 am
Berkman Klein Faculty Associate, Zeynep Tufekci joins us to talk about her new book, Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest. [read post]
