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21 Jul 2014, 11:45 am
From Harvard Professor and Princeton Fellow, Zeynep Tufekci (@zeynep): [I]t is clear that the powerful have increasingly more ways to engineer the public, and this is true for Facebook, this is true for presidential campaigns, this is true for other large actors: big corporations and governments. [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]
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]
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]
1 Aug 2014, 10:18 am
” Similarly, Zeynep Tufekci, writes, these large corporations (and governments and political campaigns) now have new tools and stealth methods to quietly model our personality, our vulnerabilities, identify our networks, and effectively nudge and shape our ideas, desires and dreams. [read post]
31 Aug 2014, 6:44 pm
” Sociologist Zeynep Tufekci noted after the riots in Ferguson that although many news items were being posted to Facebook, she initially saw none of them in her feed, just ice bucket challenges. [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]
6 Jun 2016, 4:04 pm
This, as techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci has said, “demonstrates the profoundly political nature of the choices made by major internet platforms”. [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]
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]
11 Aug 2015, 11:25 am
We begin today with southeastern Turkey, where after two years of relative calm, violence has returned and “the tension is palpable” as conflict intensifies between the Kurds and the Turkish state. [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]
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]
2 Feb 2012, 1:14 pm
By Venkat Balasubramani, with comments from Eric. [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]
21 Aug 2014, 11:10 am
Photo credit: “An eraser from a pencil is starting to erase the word data” // ShutterStockI haven’t yet written about the ECJ Right to Be Forgotten ruling directly, though I’ve already referenced it on the blog a few times. [read post]
