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Zeynep is a writer and an academic. She's a New York Times contributing opinion writer and a professor at the University of North Carolina.
Given my topics, my book is likely to be targeted by a deliberate campaign to suppress its visibility because the trolls who game algorithms know that books that are negatively rated are shown to fewer people, and also that even when people know that some reviews are just shills, the initial impression means something. If you search for a book on Google, all you see is the number of stars with no context whether a good deal of those are one-star reviews that are purposefully malicious, and are not by readers of the book. If I make a penny more from this book because it sells well by some miracle, I will donate every extra penny to groups supporting refugees, and if I ever meet you in person and you purchased a copy of the book in support, please let me know and I’ll buy the coffee or beer. Encouraging more free creative commons copies is especially important people in developing countries for whom book delivery and cost is an issue, and I was such a person until I came over to the United States.
My TED talk on the importance of human morals in the age of machine intelligence is up. I’ve started a newsletter, which will include my longer writing, but it won’t be archived publicly. I’m experimenting with having a non-public outlet, for conversations that are not public statements, but more like thinking out loud, or thoughts or notes that do not make it into my public writings. One more update: My book from Yale University Press, “Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protests” is available for preorder here!
Few updates: I’m now writing regularly (monthly) at the New York Times as a contributing opinion writer. (That page doesn’t include this one on Uber and the power of data and algorithms in general, which was co-authored with Brayden King.) Finally, I’m working on a book for Yale University Press tentatively titled “Networked Protests in the 21st Century”. I’m super excited about this book as it will bring together my theoretical and empirical work on the interaction between new technologies and social movements in one place.