About

Adele Zeynep Walton is a British-Turkish journalist reporting on the human impacts of digital technology and social media, and the author of Logging Off: The Human Cost of Our Digital World.

Growing up as a Gen Z online Adele spent endless hours as a teenager on social media, shaping her view of herself and the world, but after losing her sister to online harms, she realised that our current digital world is failing us. As an online safety campaigner, she campaigns for social media regulation with Bereaved Families for Online Safety and is a youth ambassador with People Vs Big Tech and fellow with Connected By Data.

A lifelong bookworm, Adele was Dazed’s first ever political book columnist between 2023 and 2024. She has collaborated on content with a range of publishers to promote political education and youth participation in positive social change, including Penguin, Verso Books, Pluto Press, SquarePeg, Left Book Club, Headline and more. She has over 3 million views and 500,000 likes on TikTok. Adele is also the Website Editor for Naked Politics.

Adele has a vast range of expertise in digital communications and PR, both in a freelance and in-house capacity, specialising in digital content strategy for progressive communications and campaigns. Charity work includes being Press Officer for Oxfam, Training Assistant for Friends, Families and Travellers, and volunteering with Amnesty, VSO, Wateraid, The World Transformed and Roma Support Group. Adele is a First Class graduate in International Development from the University of Sussex.

Adele is represented by literary agency Bergstrom Studio.