Showing posts with label May 04. Show all posts
Showing posts with label May 04. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Cyberculture agenda: “World Leaders on Periscope… Google explains how it fought webspam in 2015….

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How we fought webspam in 2015
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Search is a powerful tool. It helps people to find, share, and access an amazing wealth of content regardless of how they connect or where they are located. As part of Google’s search quality team, we work hard to ensure that searchers see high quality search results—and not webspam. We fight spam through a combination of algorithms and manual reviews to ensure that sites don’t rise in search results through deceptive or manipulative behavior, especially because those sites could harm or mislead users.
World Leaders on Periscope 2016

Periscope coverLike other new and popular social media platforms, Periscope has captured the essence of “discovering the world through someone else’s eyes”. Although broadcasting live from a mobile device is not new, Periscope, an app owned by Twitter, has made it far easier to communicate directly with your followers and read their comments in real time.

 

Digital #Diaspora Diplomacy

Over the past three weeks, I have published posts concerning issues that arose during Israel’s 1st Digital Diplomacy Conference held earlier this year in Tel Aviv. This week’s post will be the last in this series and will deal the issue of using digital tools for diaspora diplomacy.

New Patterns of Migration?

The Complete Beginner’s Guide To Chatbots

Everything you need to know.

What are chatbots? Why are they such a big opportunity? How do they work? How can I build one? How can I meet other people interested in chatbots?

These are the questions we’re going to answer for you right now.

Ready? Let’s do this.

The Next Front in the New Crypto Wars: WhatsApp

In Saturday’s edition of the New York Times, Matt Apuzzo reports that the Department of Justice is locked in a “prolonged standoff” with WhatsApp. The government is frustrated by its lack of real-time access to messages protected by the company’s end-to-end encryption. The story may represent a disturbing preview of the next front in the FBI’s war against encryption.

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So rumors are true, Erdoğan signs off Davutoğlu, “Turkey’s ruling AKP will make extraordinary congress decision…

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A key meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has ended amid rumors of the rift between the two has ended
News of the Day: Davutoglu’s Fall

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New photo from Facebook May 04, 2016 at 10:03PM

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New photo from Facebook May 04, 2016 at 05:45PM

“The City of the Future” by Сергей Колобанов via Reddit. via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

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Anthropology roundup: “Decolonizing Anthropology…

Monday, May 4, 2015

a little bit of rootlessness…

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One feels a bit of rootlessness when you are continously on the road/ or better to say flight to flight. i have been in skopje last week, after one day in Istanbul, flew to Berlin for the DW Bobs Awards now on my way to Lisbon, through Barcelona. i will be in Lisbon until Sunday. The good thing is that everywhere i go, there are some people i like to hang out with and on the road coffee and my kindle accompanying me…making me rooted in the end…

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Persona non Grata, A documentary (with English subtitles) on the story of Turkey’s journalists today… EFD Rights Watch….

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A new documentary: Persona non Grata

Produced by P24, directed by Tuluhan Tekelioglu, Persona non Grata tells the story of Turkey’s journalists today—watch it here…

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The first public screening of Punto24’s new documentary was held at the Swedish Consulate in Istanbul to mark the World Press Freedom Day on 3 May, 2015.

This is not a commercial film and P24 is happy to share it with journalists worldwide for free distribution and viewing. Please write to us at info@platform24.org for copyright regulations.

P24 wishes to thank director Tuluhan Tekelioglu and anyone else who contributed to the making of Persona non Grata, including the members of the media who accepted to appear and share their experience on film.

To watch Persona non Grata please click here.

In other Rights related news:

Local shopkeepers who beat a group of May Day activists in Istanbul have said that the police thanked them for their vigilant action. ‘We are Muslims and they are terrorists,’ one shopkeeper told daily Hürriyet on May 2.
The launch of “Nefela Birîndar”, an oral history study which has been written by Faruk Balıkçı and Ruhi Karadağ, and conveys the perspective of guerrillas regarding the peace process, was obstructed in Nusaybin and Kızıltepe cities.
Journalists marched with the slogan “stand up for journalism” on World Press Freedom Day, celebrated worldwide on May 3
At least 139 workers died as a result of workplace hazards in March 2015, with the total death toll exceeding 351 over the first three months of 2015, according to a report by the Turkey-based Workplace Health and Safety Assembly
Governor Hüseyin Avni Coş has filed a complaint against a university student, Meral Tutcalı. Tutcalı shared an entry saying: “Governor Hüseyin Avni Coş declared his autonomy. He’s even more bombastic than President Erdoğan,” on Zaytung website.
Lawyer Umut Kılıç has been arrested for saying “You are fascist Erdoğan’s men” to the judges during the juridical interview in which he participated to be judge. Ankara Bar Association has explained that Turkey is ruled by Fascists in their written statement.
The Turkish court that ordered the release of 75 policemen ‘has taken instructions from Pennsylvania’ [where Islamic cleric Fethullah Gülen is based] a week ago; we have the [voice] recordings,’ PM Davutoğlu has said.
As lanterns fly in the skies of Ankara in the early hours of April 25 to mark the centennial anniversary of the World War I campaign in Gallipoli, Turkey’s national media discovered Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s mausoleum has new company in the capital’s skyline: The much-speculated, new presidential palace.

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