Why Zeynep Tufekci saw the pandemic coming - and what else she knows

Channels with Peter Kafka

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4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Zeynep Tufekci is an academic and writes for the Atlantic. She’s not an epidemiologist. So how did she see the pandemic coming before most everyone else? Tufekci sits down with Recode’s Peter Kafka to talk about experts, expertise, the problem the media has with communicating risk - and why she’s starting her own newsletter, too. Featuring:Zeyneep Tufekci (@zeynep), sociologist and writer for The Atlantic Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:40.7	This is Recode Media, Peter Kafka. That is me. I'm delighted to have on the other side of the internet talking to me, Zainep Tufcchi. There are many ways to describe
1:45.5	what Zaynip does. I'm going to give you a couple of them. This is from the New York Times,
1:49.4	Ben Smith's profile recently. Dr. Fetchi is an associate professor at University of North Carolina's
1:54.6	School of Information and Library Science with no obvious qualifications in epidemiology.
1:59.9	Then later he goes on to describe her as perhaps the only good amateur epidemiologist.
2:04.5	She describes herself with someone who studies techno-sociology and then goes on to describe her
2:08.7	interests as society, authoritarianism, technology, protests, the public sphere.
2:13.9	I think of her as one of the brainiest people I follow on the internet and so I'm delighted to
2:17.3	have her here.
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