Zeynep Tufekci studies the interaction between technology and society. She is an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, a fellow at Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton and a faculty associate at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Her research interests revolve around social media, especially with regards to social movements, politics, surveillance and privacy. She blogs at http://www.technosociology.org and can be found on twitter at https://www.twitter.com/zeynep.
Zeynep Tufekci
Articles
January 9, 2014
Capabilities of Movements and Affordances of Digital Media: Paradoxes of Empowerment
From the “Indignados” in Spain, to “Occupy” in the United States, from Tahrir Square in Egypt to Syntagma Square in Greece, from Gezi Park in Turkey to #Euromaidan in Ukraine, the recent...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipOctober 3, 2013
Pepper Spray and Penguins: Analysis of Turkey’s Social Media-fueled Gezi Protests
The Gezi protests took everyone, including the protesters themselves, by surprise. "This wasn’t what I had planned to do in June at all," said a man in his early 30s to me...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipJuly 30, 2013
Anonymity, Internet Surveillance & Lessons from the Anthony Weiner Case
As a scholar of privacy and surveillance as well as political activism in repressive societies where government surveillance has consequences much worse than embarrassment and political derailment, my take away lesson from...
Category: Digital CitizenshipJune 20, 2013
Be Quiet and Don’t Move So You Can Be Heard
Last Saturday, one day after I left Istanbul following an intense week of interviews with more than 100 Gezi Park protest participants, Turkish police forcefully cleared out the park, which had been...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipJune 3, 2013
Networked Politics from Tahrir to Taksim: Is there a Social Media-fueled Protest Style?
Protesters from one of the world’s richest countries, one of the world’s oldest autocracies, and one of the world’s rising developing countries walk into ... a public space, use Twitter extensively, and...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital Citizenship