Creating an Open Scholarly Commons: New Technologies, Old Threats
Davis Library Rm 214, Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
Zeynep Tufekci, Assistant Professor, UNC-SILS
Zeynep Tufekci joined the faculty at UNC in Fall 2011. She is an assistant professor at the School of Information and Library Science with an affiliate appointment in the Department of Sociology. Previously she was an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Additionally she is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University in 2011-2012. Her research interests include the social impacts of technology, collective action and social movements, privacy and surveillance, inequality, research methods and complex systems. She blogs at http://www.technosociology.org.
*Note that we’ll be back to meeting on Wednesdays this spring.