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Zeynep Tufekci is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina and an opinion writer at the New York Times.
Her first book, Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest, was published by Yale University Press. She is currently working on a book about the social impacts of artificial intelligence and digital connectivity on society, with special emphasis on machine learning and data.
Zeynep started her career as a computer programmer before switching to social science to explore the interaction between technology and society.