EFDbackup: October 2016

Monday, October 31, 2016

A mobile app for recommendations: “itcher”

Founders of itcher found this blog sent me brief information about their mobile app. Since I like to use several recommendation services to find out new stuff, I said why not. Have a look..

How the idea was born

We live in a digital age – with millions of titles across streaming platforms, there is an undeniable need for something that helps users navigate through the mass of entertainment. itcher was created to solve this problem.

What is itcher?

itcher is an app that recommends movies, books, music and games available on both Android and iOS. itcher tailors recommendations to each user’s individual taste, and makes discovery exciting again!

How it Works

After downloading the app users will get personalized recommendations by first rating 5 titles in any category they choose. As users rate, the recommendations will light up the lightbulb tab and users can view them immediately. The recommendations also get better over time. It’s that easy.

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EFD Haftanın Web Projesi: “Emel Korkmaz – Kampanya Sayfası”

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Neden Koşuyorum

Ben neden mi koşuyorum? ALİKEV için… ALİKEV, Ali İsmail Korkmaz adına, o’nun hayallerini yaşatmak, gerçekleştirmek adına kurduğumuz vakıf…
Bizler, o’nun ailesi olarak o’nun kısacık yaşamında gerçekleştirmeye çalıştığı hayallerinin, düşlerinin peşine düşmek için bu vakfı kurduk.
Ali İsmail kısacık yaşamında o kadar çok şey yaptı ki… Küçüktü ama bir sürü çocuğa kitap okuttu; aralarından en iyi özet çıkarana hediyeler aldı. Köy okullarına kitap götürdü. Hep derdi ki, “Köyde okuyan çocuklar ne kadar eğitim alabiliyorlar ki? Onlara kitap götürmeliyim.” Engellilere çuvallarca şişe kapağı topladı. Defalarca huzur evine gitti…
Biz çocuklarımızı sevgiyle iyilikle büyüttük. İşte benim Ali İsmail’im bu kadar sevgiyle, insanlıkla dolu bir çocuktu. Şimdi ben o’nun düşlerini gerçeğe dönüştürmek için, vakfımızı yaşatmak, onlarca çocuğa, gence imkanlar yaratmak için koşuyorum ve sizlerin de bağış katkılarıyla kampanya hedeflerimizi gerçekleştirip amacımıza ulaşacağımıza inanıyorum. Destekleriniz için şimdiden teşekkür ediyorum.

Burada

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Anthropology roundup: “Public e-seminar on media practices and the radical imagination”

Black Monday: Cumhuriyet daily raided, its chief editor and many columnists detained…

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Aydın Engin, 75 year old columnist, harassed and detained…

Prominent #Cumhuriyet columnist & #Turkey rep for @globalfreemedia @KadriGursel reported among journos slated for detention.His house raided

— Amberin Zaman (@amberinzaman) October 31, 2016

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Birkaç yıl önce Ergenekoncu olmakla suçlanan Cumhuriyet gazetesine şimdi de FETÖ ve PKK suçlaması yöneltiliyor. http://pic.twitter.com/LVpeTQj7G7

— ahmet şık (@sahmetsahmet) October 31, 2016

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Cumhuriyet is one of the last reporting newspapers in Turkey; I do not say even say oppositional-just reporting. https://t.co/ngJDZK575D

— Sezin Öney (@SezinOney) October 31, 2016

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Turkey press crackdown latest: 13 journalists detained this morn after police raid opp. paper @cumhuriyetgzt https://t.co/nZyzRzbp5n

— David Lepeska (@dlepeska) October 31, 2016

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Turkish police detain editor of opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper: media

Reuters – Oct 31, 1:51 AM

ISTANBUL Turkish police on Monday detained the editor-in-chief of the opposition secularist Cumhuriyet newspaper and said homes of the paper’s executives and writers were being searched, broadcaster CNN Turk and other media reported. Prosecutors

UPDATING…: Operation in Cumhuriyet Daily, Some Taken into Custody

Bianet :: English

Police has raided the houses of Cumhuriyet Daily Ediyor-in-Chief Murat Sabuncu, President of the Execution Board Akın Atalay and Cumuhuriyet Foundation Executive Board member and columnist Güray Öz. Sabuncu and Öz have been taken into custody.

Police raid house of former Cumhuriyet editor in-chief Can Dündar

Istanbul police raided the house of Can Dündar, the former editor-in-chief of daily Cumhuriyet, on Oct. 30.

Police make detentions, raid houses of Cumhuriyet journalist

Turkish police have detained the editor-in-chief of daily Cumhuriyet and at least four other journalists, the newspaper reported early on Oct. 31, while CNN Türk reported that at least 13 warrants have been issued for the newspaper’s journalists and executives.

New Statutory Decrees Issued, 10 Newspapers, 2 News Agencies, 3 Magazines Closed

Bianet :: English

10 newspapers, two news agencies, three magazines have been closed including Evrensel Kültür, Tîroj, Özgürlük Dünyası, DİHA ve Azadiya Welat.

In the mean time,

Turkish court arrests Diyarbakır co-mayors

A Diyarbakır court arrested Gültan Kışanak and Fırat Anlı, the co-mayors of the southeastern province late on Oct. 30.

RedHackers daunt the Erdogan family
Al-Monitor
On Sept. 23, RedHack, a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist computer hacking group, announced that they hacked into Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s son-in-law’s email accounts. Berat Albayrak is not only Erdogan’s eldest son-in-law, but he is also Turkey …
RedHack Leaks Reveal the Rise of Turkey’s Pro-Government Twitter TrollsThe Daily Dot

U.S. Tells Families of Istanbul Consulate Staff to Leave Turkey

NYT > Turkey by By CEYLAN YEGINSU

The State Department issued the order because of increased security threats from terrorist organizations.

Turkey shuts 15 media outlets and arrests opposition editor

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Constanze Letsch in Istanbul

Editor of the Cumhuriyet secularist newspaper arrested in dawn raids with 10,000 more civil servants sacked for alleged terror links

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Sunday, October 30, 2016

Last night, some had good time while another 10 K citizens lost their jobs after the State of Emergency decree…

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Some were so happy at the reception that took place at the Presidential Palace in Ankara to commemorate the 93rd anniversary of Turkish Republic.

Some pro-government columnists who built their career as anti-militarists -during their anti-Kemalism years- were happy to take selfies with the Chief of Staff:

ceren kenar yıldıray oğur genç siviller genelkurmay selfie

In the mean time:

And we rely on American embassy’s warnings for her own citizens to be informed about possible terror threats…

Turkey sacks more than 10,000 civil servants over links with failed coup

Reuters – Oct 30, 2:26 AM

ISTANBUL Turkish authorities have dismissed more than 10,000 civil servants over their suspected links with U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, blamed by Ankara for orchestrating the failed coup in July. Thousands of academics, teachers and health

How to lose a job with a peacenik tweet

Most of those who know Turkey’s human rights community probably also know Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu. He is a medical doctor from the city of Kocaeli, and has been a devoted human rights activist for decades.

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Journalism agenda: Turkey practically shut down all Kurdish media with the latest state of emergency decree…

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Turkish government shuts down 15 media outletshttps://t.co/rBrlRkTXCo http://pic.twitter.com/NR6xlM3qcX

— P24 (@P24Punto24) October 29, 2016

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The rest of the Kurdish media in Turkey closed down by decree on top of days of no internet in the Southeast. https://t.co/p401np2FRz

— Emma Sinclair-Webb (@esinclairwebb) October 29, 2016

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The team set out to build a ‘truly integrated narrative’ and a multimedia story that works on mobile

Tip: How to build a chat bot without having to code

Journalism.co.uk

Not feeling confident enough to build a bot from scratch? These tools can do some of the hard work for you

Deutsche Welle is working on a tool that makes it easier to tell stories in virtual reality

Journalism.co.uk

The German broadcaster hopes the tool, called Fader, will allow journalists with no VR production experience to tell stories in this format

Journalism in times of crisis

open Democracy News Analysis – by Rebecca Abecassis and Manuel Nunes Ramires Serrano

Rebecca Abecassis argues that in times of crisis, journalists need to be clearer in their work and go beyond simply reporting the news. Interview. Español Português

How news organisations are starting to tackle the lack of diversity in sports journalism

Journalism.co.uk

This year’s #DWORD2 conference looked at how the media industry can encourage more people of Black, Asian and minority ethnic origin to cover sports

Tool for journalists: Hypothes.is, a Chrome extension for annotations

Journalism.co.u

Hypothes.is can help journalists collaborating on a project or investigation to collect, organise and discuss their research in one place

Harvard Business Review, dropping print issues, is looking for the best new forms for the magazine online

Nieman Journalism Lab by Shan Wang

What should the experience of a magazine be when it’s moved online?

As the subscription-based Harvard Business Review drops from 10 print issues a year to six in 2017, it’s looking for those new formats through six new online series, each of which will be a multi-day, multimedia package organized around a single concept. The metaphor of the print magazine is useful for understanding the editorial structure of these series, which HBR is calling “The Big Idea.”

There’s lots of free news online from public media, but it doesn’t seem to discourage paying for other news

Nieman Journalism Lab by Shan Wang

“I don’t think I would pay for it just because there’s so much availability of news on the internet for free that I feel like, if I have to pay for something somewhere, I’ll just look for it free somewhere else,” said one college student interviewed for an American Press Institute study released last year about American millennials’ attitudes towards paying for news.

5 key considerations for ethical virtual reality storytelling

Journalism.co.uk

Involve the audience in the process and work with a diverse team on VR projects, advises Catherine Allen, freelance VR producer for the BBC

Snapchat might become a more reliable income source for publishers

Nieman Journalism Lab by Laura Hazard Owen

Snapchat is planning to switch up the payment terms of its Discover section, Recode reports — but that might not be a bad thing if it provides publishers with a little more certainty about their revenue from the platform.

From Recode:

Tool for journalists: AutoEdit, to edit videos quicker using transcriptions

Journalism.co.uk

The tool aims to speed up the process of using transcriptions to produce and edit videos, and to make it easier to add captions

Tip: Starting to write on Medium? Here’s a handy style guide

Journalism.co.uk

Check out this guide to making the most of the blogging platform

The Financial Times removed words from stories to convince readers to whitelist its site. 47% agreed

Nieman Journalism Lab by Ricardo Bilton

Hope isn’t lost for media organizations trying to get readers to stop blocking their ads. Maybe all they have to do is ask.

In July, The Financial Times ran a 30-day experiment to see what it would take to get people to whitelist the site in their adblocking software. Fifteen thousand of its registered users were split into three groups, each of which had access restricted in different ways. One group, for example, was presented with FT stories that had some of their words removed, a metaphor for the share of revenue that comes from advertising. Other readers weren’t able to access the site at all unless they opted in to ads. Readers were also given a message: “We understand your decision to use an ad blocker. However, FT journalism takes time and funding…”

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Istanbul news roundup: “US orders evacuation of Istanbul diplomatic staff families”

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US orders evacuation of Istanbul diplomatic staff families

The US State Department has ordered the families of American diplomats in Istanbul, Turkey, to leave due to an increased risk of terrorism following …

US orders families of consulate workers in Istanbul to leave – PBS NewsHour

US Orders Families of Consulate Workers in Istanbul to Leave – ABC News

US Orders Family Members to Leave Consulate in Istanbul – NBCNews.com

Turkey Travel Warning

travel.state.gov – Jul 29, 2015

travel.state.gov > Passports & International Travel > Alerts and Warnings > Turkey Travel Warning Thank you for sending a link to the travel.state.gov page to the following email(s): Email a link to this page on travel.state.gov To:

ISTANBUL AS TOURIST DESTINATION: Turkish Airlines spreads ‘the good news’ after coup storm

Vanguard

When on October 18, four Nigerian journalists were taken on board Turkish Airlines for a flight to Istanbul, it was like what the airline would want to do

Contemporary Istanbul Tests Turkish Market Rocked by Terrorism and Coup Attempt

Artsy

Over its 11-year history, Contemporary Istanbul (CI) has experienced the ebbs and flows of the country’s art market, from ebullient peaks in 2012 to

8 things you must try while in Istanbul

Independent Online

Istanbul – Having just returned from a work trip to Istanbul courtesy of Turkish Airlines, the sights, sounds, and smells of Turkey’s largest city remains

Besiktas stadium & Istanbul city guide

Turkish Football

Besiktas were founded in 1903 making them the oldest sports club out of the Istanbul juggernauts but their football team dates to seven years later …

Fenerbahce stadium and Istanbul city guide for Man Utd fans – Turkish Football

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Saturday, October 29, 2016

Anthropology roundup: ” On Dylan and the Nobel Prize”

As “Government control over Turkish media almost complete”, public and private are assisting an internet shutdown in Diyarbakır…

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Media Ownership Monitor: Government control over Turkish media almost complete | Reporters without borders

rsf.org – Oct 27, 5:09 AM

Penguins became the symbol of the government’s grip on the media in Turkey in 2013, when during the Gezi protests many news channels aired documentaries, one of them on CNN Türk about penguins. Since then the main media have become even more

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Companies behind the shutdown:

Telekom Türksat Vodafone Superonline D-Smart Turkcell Doping Turknet Digiturk

New internet shutdown in Turkey’s Southeast: 8% of country now offline amidst Diyarbakir unrest

Turkey Blocks – Editorial – Oct 26, 10:14 PM

A second full internet shutdown has cut off 6 million citizens in Turkey’s Southeast regions according to network reachability analysis, following yesterday’s incident that shut off much of the country. The blocks, coming amidst protests against…

Turkey cuts internet for 6 million in 11 Kurdish cities to ‘prevent protests

dailydot.com – Oct 27, 9:13 AM

Turkey ‘s government on Thursday cut mobile and landline internet access in 11 cities in the southeast area of the country for the second day in a row. The decision came after locals took the streets in protest over Diyarbakır’s co-mayors

Diyarbakir protests timid as Kurds wary of post-coup crackdown

al-monitor.com – Oct 26, 9:38 PM

Author: Amberin Zaman October 27, 2016 Turkey’s Kurds protested the detentions of the co-mayors of Diyarbakir, the country’s largest Kurdish-majority city, for a second day, even as a government-imposed internet outage across the mainly Kurdish

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Eurosphere agenda: An Interview with Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Iceland’s Pirate party figurehead…

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‘The system is a reflection of who we are’: an interview with Birgitta Jónsdóttir

open Democracy News Analysis – by Ashish Ghadiali and Birgitta Jónsdóttir

“It’s not only about us versus the system. The system is really us.” As Iceland’s radical Pirate party approaches the gates of power, we speak to its figurehead Birgitta Jónsdóttir.

Birgitta Jónsdóttir. Frank Augstein/AP/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.Ashish Ghadiali: What is happening in Iceland right now? It’s really weird, right? You’ve got a prosperous nation, the economy has recovered out of a terrible collapse, and suddenly, led by the Pirate Party, you’ve got this most radical reformist government within an inch of power…

Pirates of the north

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Iceland’s Pirate Party could make history by entering a coalition government after Saturday’s election.

Debate: Belgium lifts blockade on Ceta

euro|topics

Shortly after the cancellation of the EU summit with Canada, Belgium on Thursday reached a consensus on the free trade agreement. This has stopped Ceta falling through for now. Some commentators see no cause to celebrate an agreement that they believe undermines national sovereignty. Others praise Canada’s conduct during the altercation as exemplary.

Debate: Nato boosts presence in eastern Europe

euro|topics

Nato plans to boost its military presence in eastern Europe as of 2017. Alliance defence ministers discussed the details of the plan at a meeting in Brussels this week. A total of 4,000 troops are to be stationed in the Baltic states and Poland. For some commentators this is a clever preemptive move in the context of Russian aggression. Others fear an escalation in the conflict with Moscow.

Debate: Who will be France’s next president?

euro|topics

With six months to go before France’s presidential election in April and May 2017, the incumbent head of state François Hollande is lagging far behind in the polls. Only four percent of the French are satisfied with his performance. Commentators speculate that this could push many Socialists to make an unusual decision.

Yazidi women win Parliament’s Sakharov prize

EurActiv.com by Samuel Morgan

Yazidi activists Nadia Murad and Lamiya Aji Bashar, victims of sexual slavery carried out by Islamic State, have won the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize. EurActiv Spain reports.

Debate: Ceta summit in Brussels cancelled

euro|topics

Today Thursday was supposed to see the signing of the Ceta trade agreement between Canada and the EU. But since Belgium failed to reach a consensus with it regions, the Canadian governmental delegation has cancelled its trip to Brussels. Some commentators are pleased that Wallonia kept up its resistance, saying this may force renegotiations. Others voice disappointment at the EU’s inability to take action.

Migrant crisis: Mediterranean to have ‘deadliest year ever’

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

This year is set to be the deadliest for refugees and migrants crossing the Mediterranean to Europe, the UN refugee agency says.

Debate: Surprise winners in Lithuanian election

euro|topics

The Peasants and Greens Union, until recently just a small opposition party, has won the parliamentary election in Lithuania. Voters relegated the ruling Social democrats to third place, while the conservatives came second. Lithuania’s press analyses the reasons for this unexpected outcome.

The filibuster of the Turing Bill reminds us that homophobia is alive and well in Britain

open Democracy News Analysis – by Callum Phillips

The Conservative justice minister filibustered a bill to pardon the thousands of men convicted under legislation that criminalised homosexuality. This act lays bear the discrimination still faced by LGBT people in this country.

A statue of Alan Turing, for whom the bill was named. Photo: Jon Callas. Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons Licensed.The failure of the Turing Bill is a stark reminder of the homophobia embedded in British society. A staunchly undemocratic filibuster, led by none other than justice minister Sam Gyimah, ensured that no vote could be taken on the Bill. The Turing Bill, named after WW2 code breaker Alan Turing, was intended to pardon the gay men prosecuted before homosexuality was decriminalised in 1967.

Debate: Ceta: Is the EU still capable of action

euro|topics

The Belgian government is still trying to convince Wallonia and Brussels to agree to Ceta. In view of Belgium’s rejection of the deal it is not clear whether the trade agreement between the EU and Canada can be signed on Thursday. The Ceta situation has triggered a debate over whether the EU states are still capable of reaching decisions together.

Debate: Can Spain’s new government work?

euro|topics

After two elections and months of deadlock Spain is finally getting a new government. The socialist PSOE party has decided to back a minority government led by Mariano Rajoy and his conservative People’s Party – a course they initially rejected after the election in June. Journalists predict that the Socialists will have a hard time supporting the conservatives.

Frassoni: Italians believe the EU abandoned them to the migration crisis

EurActiv.com by Adéla Denková

The Italian government is not losing support because it saves refugees. It is losing support because it is not perceived to be able to convince Europe to do more, says Monica Frassoni, the European Greens co-chair.

Neoliberalism, Brexit, and Higher Education

OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY by Maximilian C. Forte

Is Brexit bad for UK universities? This appears to be the question at the centre of an article from the Times Higher Education titled “UK researchers face uncertainty over EU grant applications” (David Matthews, June 29, 2016), which was approvingly reprinted in the Bulletin of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (Vol. 63, No. 7, September, 2016, p. 7). It’s peculiar that CAUT would republish this piece, which is not based on facts as much as fear, since CAUT has taken a fairly consistent, hard line in its criticisms of the impact of neoliberalism on higher education. Is it that CAUT’s writers only have a problem with neoliberalism when it adversely affects established traditions in post-secondary education in Canada, but otherwise have no problem with neoliberalism as such? That might explain the odd dualism.

Debate: Can Romania and Moldova be reunified?

euro|topics

Around 2,000 people demonstrated for the reunification of Romania and its neighbour the Republic of Moldova in Bucharest this weekend. A protest march in support of reunification has taken place every October since 2012. Commentators present various arguments for why the move is not possible right now.

The challenge of investigative journalism in the Western Balkans

open Democracy News Analysis – by Nedim Hadrovic

In the Western Balkans, even the most fundamental and comparatively minute probing into the workings of government can provoke an aggressive response from the very top, as Milka Tadić-Mijović found out.

“No, no, I only won the libel case in Serbia. It’ll be a long time before I win in Montenegro,” Milka Tadić-Mijović tells me with a subtle scoff at the speed at which legal processes unfold in the Balkans.

Debate: Spain’s Socialists pave way for Rajoy government

euro|topics

After two elections and months of deadlock Spain is finally getting a new government. The socialist PSOE party has decided to support a minority government led by Mariano Rajoy and his conservative People’s Party. The Socialists had roundly rejected this course after the last election in June. Many journalists see the party’s policy shift as a sensible decision but some argue that with this move the PSOE has discredited itself as a leftist party.

Refugees attack EU asylum offices on Lesvos

EurActiv.com

Asylum-seekers attacked the premises of the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) on the island of Lesbos on Monday (24 October), protesting against delays in dealing with asylum claims, Greek and EU authorities said.

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