Cyberculture agenda: “Social media used to prove MH17 was downed by Russian Buk missile

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Social media used to prove MH17 was downed by Russian Buk missile

Mashable! by Nicole Gallucci

The mystery surrounding the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 may have been resolved.

Three Leaders Three Narratives: Digital Diplomacy at the UN General Assembly

Exploring Digital Diplomacy by Ilan Manor

The yearly session of the UN General Assembly may be regarded as the pinnacle of the diplomatic calendar year. Within the space of a few days, global leaders are all offered the opportunity to address the General Assembly and, through global news channels, the world. Additionally, the General Assembly is often the sight of intensive bi-lateral and multi-lateral negotiations as delegations from various nations huddle into the corridors and back-rooms of the UN’s headquarters.

In recent years, the UN General Assembly is also accompanied by a flurry of digital activity. Leaders, MFAs, embassies and diplomats all storm their social media accounts in order to propagate their achievements and demonstrate their inclusion in high level policy making. But more importantly, leaders may use digital platforms in order to share their vision for the future and outline their foreign policy goals. As such, it is during the UN General Assembly that social media becomes an important tool for foreign policy narration.

The Birth, Weird Life, and Afterlife of an Internet Meme

Wired Top Stories by Craig Froehle

Opinion: How one little graphic about inequality, posted on a professor’s Google+ page, came to be shared and adapted around the world.

In ballots we trust: E-voting, hacking and the 2016 election

Mashable! by Lance Ulanoff

A vote is an act of conscience and will. It’s also an act of trust. You’re not just marking a ballot for your candidate of choice, your signifying your belief in the system. Your mark will be counted. Your voice will be heard.

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Readings of my doctoral course: “Theories of New Media”

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Every semester I do change most of the readings. This is the new list, I have come up with. As usual, suggestions are welcome. The course is taught at the Communication Sciences PhD. Program at İstanbul Bilgi University…

COMM720-2016 Syllabus

COURSE NAME

Theories of New Media

Lecturer

Assist.Prof. Erkan Saka

Description

A course for students of PhD in Communication to familiarize them with major theories of new media studies.

Reading List

Week 01

  Introduction

Week 02

  A General Approach to New Media Ecology

Spreadable Media – Jenkins, Henry, Ford, Sam, Gree

Week 03

 A General Approach to New Media Ecology

Spreadable Media – Jenkins, Henry, Ford, Sam, Gree

Week 04

 Introduction to Social Data

Life in Code – Berry (ed.)

Week 05   

Introduction to Social Data

Popular Culture, Digital Archives and the New Social Life of Data– Beer and Burrows

Week 06  

Standardizations- Protocols

Protocol vs. Institutionalization– Galloway

Week 07  

Open/Free Software

Two Bits– Kelty

Week 08  Affectivity- Post-humanism

New Philosophy for New Media– Hansen

Week 10

Media Ethnography- Virtual Methods

“Media Ethnography: Objectivity and the Making of Ethnographies of the Internet.”– Beaulieu

Reassembling Social Science Methods-Theory Culture Society-2013-Ruppert

Week 11   

Hactivism

Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness, and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier. Mandarin Australia– Dreyfuss

Coding Freedom. The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking– Coleman

Do “liberatıon technologies” change the balance of power  between repressıve states and civil society?– Meier

Week 12   

Glitch, Noise, and Jam in New Media Cultures

The Seven Million Dollar PowerPoint and Its Aftermath: What Happens When the House Intelligence Committee Sees. “Terrorist Use of the Internet” in a Battlefi eld 2 – Losh

Disrupting the Public Sphere: Mediated Noise and Oppositional Politics – Gournelos

Wikipedia, Error, and Fear of the Bad Actor- Nunes

In Glitch, Noise, and Jam in New Media Cultures

 

Week 13

  Cases

Boz Baykuşlar– Sayan

Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human.  Princeton University Press.– Boellstorff
Week 14

Selections from Yeni Medya Çalışmaları I– II and III

 

Assessment

Weekly response papers to published at Medium.com and shared in our Facebook group. 60%

Final Paper- 10K words. 40%

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