Zeynep Tufekci is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina, author of Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest from Yale University Press and an opinion writer at the New York Times and a columnist with Scientific American and Wired.

Her research revolves around the interaction between society and technology with special focus on how big data, algorithms and artificial intelligence are affecting social and political structures in society and the workings of power, politics and resistance.