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Zeynep Tufekci

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#350

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Zeynep Tufekci's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of Texas at Austin
Masters Computer Science University of Texas at Austin

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According to Wikipedia, Zeynep Tufekci is a sociologist, and the Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs 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. 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.”

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Zeynep Tufekci's Published Works

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Social Media and the Decision to Participate in Political Protest: Observations From Tahrir Square (2012) (1247)
Can You See Me Now? Audience and Disclosure Regulation in Online Social Network Sites (2008) (844)
An evidence review of face masks against COVID-19 (2021) (650)
Big Questions for Social Media Big Data: Representativeness, Validity and Other Methodological Pitfalls (2014) (584)
Ten scientific reasons in support of airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 (2021) (497)
GROOMING, GOSSIP, FACEBOOK AND MYSPACE (2008) (428)
Airborne transmission of respiratory viruses (2021) (414)
Face Masks Against COVID-19: An Evidence Review (2020) (358)
Engineering the public: Big data, surveillance and computational politics (2014) (269)
“Not This One” (2013) (187)
Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest (2017) (151)
Social Movements and Governments in the Digital Age: Evaluating a Complex Landscape (2014) (92)
The Medium and the Movement: Digital Tools, Social Movement Politics, and the End of the Free Rider Problem (2014) (66)
Old wine in a new technology, or a different type of digital divide? (2009) (56)
Who Acquires Friends Through Social Media and Why? "Rich Get Richer" Versus "Seek and Ye Shall Find" (2010) (48)
Twitter and Tear Gas (2020) (42)
Introduction to the Special Issue on New Media and Social Unrest (2013) (42)
Facebook, Youth and Privacy in Networked Publics (2012) (41)
"Girls don't waste time": pre-adolescent attitudes toward ICT (2006) (33)
Big Data: Pitfalls, Methods and Concepts for an Emergent Field (2013) (31)
Facebook Said Its Algorithms Do Help Form Echo Chambers, and the Tech Press Missed It (2015) (30)
Occupying the Political (2013) (26)
As the Pirates Become CEOs: The Closing of the Open Internet (2016) (18)
Algorithms in our Midst: Information, Power and Choice when Software is Everywhere (2015) (17)
We were always human (2012) (16)
Face Masks Against COVID-19 : An Evidence (2020) (15)
What were the historical reasons for the resistance to recognizing airborne transmission during the COVID‐19 pandemic? (2022) (14)
The Mutual Co-Construction of Online and Onground in Cyborganic: Making an Ethnography of Networked Social Media Speak to Challenges of the Posthuman 11 (2012) (14)
Are we all equally at home socializing online? Cyberasociality and evidence for an unequal distribution of disdain for digitally-mediated sociality (2014) (13)
The Social Internet: Frustrating, Enriching, but Not Lonely (2014) (13)
Pepper‐spray and penguins (2013) (9)
Chapter 1. Digital Inequity in the Austin Technopolis: An Introduction (2012) (7)
Echoes Through Time: The Historical Origins of the Droplet Dogma and its Role in the Misidentification of Airborne Respiratory Infection Transmission (2021) (6)
Chapter 4. Past and Future Divides: Social Mobility, Inequality, and the Digital Divide in Austin during the Tech Boom (2012) (6)
Should masks be worn outdoors? (2021) (5)
Gender Differences in Academic Efficacy across STEM Fields (2021) (3)
Youtube has a video for that. (2019) (2)
Chapter 5. The Digital Divide: The National Debate and Federal- and State-Level Programs (2012) (2)
Internet Use and Gender, Race and Class: The Digital Divide in the Era of Youtube and Facebook (2008) (2)
Private A.I. (2019) (1)
A Response to Johanne Kübler’s A Review of Zeynep Tufekci – Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest (2017, New Haven: Yale University Press) (2019) (1)
Online voting? Fuhgeddaboudit! (2019) (0)
Don't trust, verify: finding the facts in a world of fakes (2019) (0)
Well-Being and Internet Use (2010) (0)
Preface (2019) (0)
Chapter 3. A History of High Tech and the Technopolis in Austin (2012) (0)
Chapter 2. Structuring Race in the Cultural Geography of Austin (2012) (0)
Disinfo wars: big tech slays the monsters it creates (2018) (0)
Security in the Wild for Low-Profile Activists (2017) (0)
Where are my seamless micropayments (2019) (0)
Why We Keep Debating Loneliness: Cyberasociality and Differential Dispositions towards Online Social Interaction (2013) (0)
Connecting Spaces: Gender, Video Games and Computing in the Early Teens (2022) (0)
In Praise Of One-Trick Ponies (2019) (0)
Owned: we have become tenants on our devices (2019) (0)
The power of suggestion (2019) (0)
Facebook: Surveillance Machine (2019) (0)
Zombie baby monitors attack. (2019) (0)
Researching Out Loud: Public Scholarship as a Process of Publishing Before and After Publishing (2014) (0)
Big data and small decisions. (2019) (0)

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