As an ibm programmer in the 1990s, Zeynep Tufekci started communicating on the company's intranet and thought, "This will change everything." Sure enough, on page 50, Tufekci grapples with how today's social internet has completely transformed the context and conditions of free speech. A professor of information science and sociology at UNC Chapel Hill, Tufekci has become one of the most prescient analysts of politics in the age of Facebook, which she credits in part to her lifelong love of science fiction. "Speculative fiction is incredibly useful," she says. Her latest book is Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest.
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