Zeynep Tufekci

Zeynep Tufekci is a fellow at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University, an assistant professor at the School of Information and Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, and a faculty associate at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society. She writes regularly at her personal site, Technosociology.

The Media Needs to Stop Inspiring Copycat Murders. Here's How.

The Media Needs to Stop Inspiring Copycat Murders. Here's How.

After a wave of teen suicides in the 1980s, news outlets began reporting on these deaths more cautiously. Similar guidelines could help prevent more shooting sprees. More »

Social Media's Small, Positive Role in Human Relationships

Social Media's Small, Positive Role in Human Relationships

It's just one factor in modern life that can increase connection in a world divided by the vagaries of capitalism, the disengagement of television, and the isolation of suburban sprawl. More »

If We Built a Safer Nuclear Reactor, How Would We Know?

If We Built a Safer Nuclear Reactor, How Would We Know?

The question is not whether nuclear power has downsides, which it clearly does, but how to evaluate its potential evolution More »

Delusions Aside, the Net's Potential Is Real

Delusions Aside, the Net's Potential Is Real

In his new book, Evgeny Morozov challenges the intellectual laziness that characterizes so many analyses of the Internet's impact More »

Wikileaks Exposes Internet's Dissent Tax, not Nerd Supremacy

Wikileaks Exposes Internet's Dissent Tax, not Nerd Supremacy

A sociologist of technology takes on Jaron Lanier's recent Atlantic essay More »

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