please join me to welcome zeynep tufekci. [applause] so our topic is really social media and the political mobilization, a topic that's very close to my own heart. zeynep, could you just share with us a little bit about yourself and how you came to write this book? because not only because you are a scholar, but also you have been engaging with the movement. so, and you are from turkey. >> yes. i'm from turkey, and i'm actually startedded out as a technology person. i started out as a programmer. of so what happened is i grew up in turkey, istanbul mostly, in the period following the 1980 military coup. i was a child, and the military coup, the post-coup era had very heavy seven veryship -- censorship. we had one tv channel. and it was also like even before, we had one tv channel, and all you could watch was mostly american shows. we watched "little house on the prairie." i have to tell you, it makes no sense if you're from istanbul. [laughter] it's about the frontier, it's supposed to be middle of no where, and where i'm from

please join me to welcome zeynep tufekci.[applause]. >> our topic is really social media and the political mobilization, a topic that is close to my own heart. can you share with us a bit about yourself, how you came to write this book because not only because you are scholar, but also you have been in gauging and you are from turkey. >> yes, i'm from turkey and actually started out as a technology person. i started out as a programmer. i grew up in turkey, istanbul mostly, following the 1982 i was a child in the military coup had very heady-- heavy censorship. we had one tv channel and it even before we had one tv channel and all you could watch was mostly american shows. we watched little house on the prairie. i have to tell you, it makes no sense if you are from istanbul because it's about the frontier in the middle of nowhere and where i am from there is no middle of nowhere like you dig there's empire in needed more and there's another empire and i'm like where are these people and we would watch things like that and it

we are very pleased to have joining us this evening zeynep tufekci, a contributing opinion writer at the new york times as well as an assistant professor in the school of information and library science at the university of north carolina,

please join me to welcome zeynep tufekci. [applause] so the topic is social media and the political mood of is it -- motivation. how did you come to write this book? and then to engage with the movement from turkey. >> yes i actually started as a technology programmer. in the period following the military coup i was a child but that era had very heavy censorship even before with one tv channel mostly american shows i have to tell you what makes no sense because about the frontier is the middle of nowhere where i am from there is no middle of nowhere. where are these people? we would watch things like that but what made sense is to show that because there was a major conflict in the part of turkey and all these other things going on with the heavy censorship regime. i was always the kid that was interested and then to learn about the atom bomb. so it seems like as oracle technology but then i thought and that i wanted a profession. that would not have ethical implications. >> i started with physics as well. >> so when i starte