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Trust, Media and Democracy

Bringing research up to speed with the challenges of the digital era

What would a healthy public sphere even look like in the digital age? What would be the institutions that take all these questions into…

4 min readJul 23, 2019

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Bringing research up to speed with the challenges of the digital era

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MIT Technology Review

How Social Media Took Us from Tahrir Square to Donald Trump

To understand how digital technologies went from instruments for spreading democracy to weapons for attacking it, you have to look beyond…

17 min readAug 14, 2018

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How Social Media Took Us from Tahrir Square to Donald Trump

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The Message

How to Stop Worrying about ISIS and Love Twitter

A speculative tour inside the coming social media crackdown on ISIS

8 min readDec 29, 2015

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How to Stop Worrying about ISIS and Love Twitter

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The Message

Star Wars Script Leaked!!!

Forget the Ancient Weapons. The Real Deal.

16 min readDec 14, 2015

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Star Wars Script Leaked!!!

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Oversaturated: Mass Culture and Niche Culture Diffuse Into Each Other

How many places left in the world where kids don’t dance to Gangnam Style?

5 min readNov 30, 2015

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Oversaturated: Mass Culture and Niche Culture Diffuse Into Each Other

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The Politics of Empathy and the Politics of Technology

Thorny (and Inevitable) Questions on Empathy from Facebook’s Safety Check to Google’s People Finder

10 min readNov 24, 2015

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The Politics of Empathy and the Politics of Technology

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Truth over Facts

When Vicarious Trauma Reveals Truths Closer to Home on Censorship and on Excuse-Making

7 min readOct 27, 2015

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Truth over Facts

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Spotify but for the Titanic: A Proposal for the Future of News and Publishing

Lanuch Lifeboats Together or Sink Together

11 min readSep 21, 2015

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Spotify but for the Titanic: A Proposal for the Future of News and Publishing

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How de Blasio Should Expand Computer Science Education

Hint: Don’t Arrest Ninth Graders Showing the Way

8 min readSep 16, 2015

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How de Blasio Should Expand Computer Science Education

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Personal News Shows Why Privacy is the Bedrock of an “Open and Connected” World

Privacy and Openness Require Each Other to Exist

4 min readAug 1, 2015

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Personal News Shows Why Privacy is the Bedrock of an “Open and Connected” World

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Zeynep Tufekci

Zeynep Tufekci

16.3K Followers

Thinking about our tools, ourselves. Assistant prof at UNC iSchool. Princeton CITP fellow, Harvard Berkman faculty associate, Sociology.

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