Zeynep Tufekci

Sociologist

Zeynep Tufekci is a Turkish-American sociologist and public intellectual. She is a professor at Princeton University and a columnist for The New York Times focused on technology, society, and policy.

Quotes by Zeynep Tufekci

Western companies (and governments) have deeply integrated themselves with an authoritarian regime without thinking through the consequences, and when push comes to shove, many will choose money over their nice mission statements.
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Given exponential growth dynamics of infectious diseases, containing an epidemic is straightforward early on, but nearly impossible once a disease spreads among a population.
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The coronavirus is airborne, so stopping its spread requires more focus on ventilation, air filtering and better masks, like N95s or KF94s, or surgical masks, preferably with braces that make them fit better.
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If surveillance, censorship and propaganda are the three pillars of authoritarianism, information, organization and leverage are the counter-pillars of citizen power. And the Internet provides the best and most appropriate infrastructure for strengthening all three.
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Epidemiologists routinely turn to models to predict the progression of an infectious disease. Fighting public suspicion of these models is as old as modern epidemiology, which traces its origins back to John Snow's famous cholera maps in 1854.
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There are worse things than being exploited, and being redundant and unable to make a living is one of them.
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We have long known most everything there is to know about what the average adult in reasonable health needs to do for fitness, and how. There is no new fad to uncover, nor is the science of it an unknown, complex field.
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When I type 'Fukushima radiation' into Google, I get a mish-mash of confusing, unhelpful, outdated or sensationalist articles from a random mix of sources, none looking very trustworthy or comforting.
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We have large-scale nuclear power but are avoiding steps to evaluate it, update it or make it safer.
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Lowering the eligibility age for Medicare to 60 and then to 55 and expanding the Veterans Health Administration, the largest integrated health care system in the country, to include firefighters, social workers, teachers and others who serve their communities are among the options that should become part of the political conversation.
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In our increasingly connected world, every virus is but a hop or two away: almost all humans are close enough to someone who flies - maybe except the isolated tribes in the Amazon.
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The outdoors, exercise, sunshine, and fresh air are all good for people's immune systems and health, and not so great for viruses.
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Attention, to a terrorist group, is often what the well-meaning, outraged response is to your two-bit Internet troll: it is the food that feeds them.
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