Turkey
Author, academic, and techno-sociologist
Hijri Unknown-Present (AH); Common Era Unknown-Present (CE)
Zeynep Tufekci is a Turkish writer, academic, and sociologist known primarily for her research on the social implications of emerging technologies in the context of politics and corporate responsibility. She is an associate professor at the school of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina and a faculty associate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. She is a regular contributor to The Atlantic and is a monthly contributor for The Atlantic and is a monthly contributor for The New York Times op-ed page on topics related to technology’s social impact. In 2015, she was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow in the Social Sciences and Humanities for the inaugural class.