Zeynep Tufekci is a sociologist and columnist for The New York Times. She is the McColl Term Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science. She earned a BA in sociology and University of Turkey in Istanbul, a a degree in computer science from Bosphorus University, and a master's degree and PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. Previously, she was an Andrew Carnegie Fellow and a fellow at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University.