In our increasingly connected world, every virus is but a hop or two away: almost all humans are close enough to someone… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
Large corporations exist to sell us things, and to impose their interests, and I don't understand why we as the research/academic community… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
Unsurprisingly, Hong Kong has had a long history of epidemics. The 1968 flu pandemic that killed 1 million people around the world… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
Thanks partly to their long history of fighting epidemics, Hong Kong also has some of the world's most prominent experts in infectious… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
In 2003, the world didn't learn about SARS until after it had escaped China and become impossible to deny. — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
Pandemics have long been among my favorite topics to teach sociology with, not because the subject is cheery, but because they contain… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
For many people, tear gas is their first interaction with state violence. It's the first time they've been treated like an insect, usually by… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
It seems to me that states (and corporations) have become increasingly secretive and opaque, while people are increasingly exposed. — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
Social media is enhancing human connectivity as people can converse in ways that were once not possible. — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
In the Middle Ages, psychosis may have involved visions of the devil, snakes, or witches. In the 21st century, it can involve dressing in… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
Very few of us consider strength-training as essential exercise, but it is. It is especially crucial as one ages, because a natural part of… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
That is the key strength of independent academia: we can speak up in spite of corporate or government interests. — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
When people confidently announce that once robots come for our jobs, we'll find something else to do like we always did, they are drawing… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
In fact, commercial aviation is so safe because redundancy is mandated by regulation and built into every level, but our commercial-flying experience is so… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
Condemnation campaigns can and do work, even in conditions where one thinks there are no morals left. — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
The first time I was teargassed, in Istanbul, Turkey, I thought I was going to die. Overwhelming pain flooded my eyes, nose, throat, and… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
Silicon Valley engineers and employees may well be overwhelmingly liberal, but Facebook is run by the algorithms they program, which optimize for the way… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
