She is also a fellow at the Center for Information Technology at Princeton University and a fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. She received her Ph.D. and Master’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin, and holds a bachelor of arts degree in sociology from Istanbul University, Turkey and an undergraduate degree in computer science from Bosphorus University, Turkey. She worked professionally as a programmer before returning to academia. Her research interests are social impacts of technology, privacy and surveillance, inequality, research methods and complex systems. She writes regularly at her personal site: technosociology.org/