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Thursday, May 19, 2016

Journalism agenda: “a comprehensive guide to Snapchat for journalists…

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Are your Snapchat stories the best they can be?
The publisher is using virtual reality to bring back to life the historical collection of the Mosul Museum, destroyed by the so-called Islamic State

Medium announced a new set of tools for publishers on Tuesday. The features, which will roll out on Thursday, have attracted a number of mostly smaller existing publishers — including The Awl and The Hairpin, Pacific Standard, andMonday Note — who will migrate their content to the platform.

“Social media hasn’t just swallowed journalism, it has swallowed everything,” Emily Bell declared in a lecture at the University of Cambridge a few weeks ago. She was talking about giant platforms and in large part about Facebook, which has rolled out (and continues to roll out) features that have news organizations scrambling to take advantage. First, it was Instant Articles — available soon to everyone on April 12. Now, it’s Facebook Live.

Editor’s note: There are lots of new stories to read in the newest issue of our sister publication Nieman Reports. In this piece, Michael Fitzgerald writes about how newsrooms can (and should) design their websites with accessibility in mind.

Elizabeth Campbell doesn’t see the web; she hears it.

 

The Online News Association recently launched the Social Newsgathering Ethicscode. That code*, created over the period of more than three years, brings publishers, broadcasters and journalistic institutions together under a common set of standards for operating in this arena.

ONA launches set of guidelines to support news organisations working with eyewitness media

The Social Newsgathering Ethics Code, revealed by the Online News Association in London today, has been in the works for three years
Co-founder Natalia Viana shares insights into what it’s like to work with a majority-female investigative team in Brazil
You may have access to leaked files, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you have a story

First Draft News frequently mentions the importance of setting up proper searches for newsgathering, and more precisely how TweetDeck can be a very powerful tool to monitor news on Twitter. In this piece, I will focus on a crucial aspect of successful search on Twitter: search operators. This term refers to characters, or strings of characters, that tell the engine to search in a specific way.

 

Check out this guide for using Twitter’s search operators to source and monitor newsworthy tweets

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Friday, March 4, 2016

Cyberculture agenda: Now not only Apple but major tech giants vs. FBI

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Forcing Apple to Write and Sign Code Undermining iPhone Security Violates First Amendment

Riverside, California—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and 46 technology industry experts, including inventors of modern cryptography, told a federal court today that forcing Apple to write and sign computer code disabling crucial iPhone security features that protect millions of users violates the company’s free speech rights.

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Over the heated battle between Apple and the FBI over the laws and ethics surrounding unlocking the phone of the San Bernadino shooter, many companies have publicly come out in support of Tim Cook and his company’s desire to keep privacy secure at the device level.
Tech Giants Agree: The FBI’s Case Against Apple Is a Joke

Apple gets a little help from its frenemies. The post Tech Giants Agree: The FBI’s Case Against Apple Is a Joke appeared first on WIRED.

NSA Is Mysteriously Absent From FBI-Apple Fight

The Federal Bureau of Investigation insisted that it was helpless.

The bureau told a judge in February that Apple has the “exclusive technical means” to try to unlock the contents of San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook’s iPhone — and that’s why it should be forced to do so.

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Yesterday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent out a lukewarm tweetstorm that tentatively expressed support for Apple CEO Tim Cook’s open letter against the government’s desire to provide a backdoor into iPhones in case of terrorist attacks.

The FBI wants access to the encrypted data on an iphone owned by one of the the San Bernardino terrorists.  The FBI has already gotten access to the data this iphone uploaded to Apple’s cloud. However, the FBI thinks there is more data on the phone that wasn’t uploaded. Here’s a quick recap:

Apple, Americans, and Security vs. FBI

This week’s order by a federal magistrate judge requiring Apple to engineer new security flaws in its iPhone software operating system has prompted widespread and escalating controversy. Legitimate concerns about its implications have driven users around the country to raise their voices in defense of not only their privacy, but also the security of their online platforms threatened by the FBI’s demands.

Apple chief Tim Cook has refused to help the FBI disable the security features of an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernadino attackers. In an open letter he said he would defy a court order to cooperate with the intelligence service. Is Apple right to insist that its mobile phones must not be broken into?

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has quietly developed a new way to measure its success in the war on terror: counting the number of terror threats it has “disrupted” in a year.

pirate-clash-fightAdult magazine publisher Perfect 10 has made a business out of suing online services for allegedly facilitating copyright infringement.

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Amazon’s Kindle devices run a custom version of Android that, until today, supported full-disk encryption. Now they don’t. (more…)

EFF to Support Apple in Encryption Battle

We learned on Tuesday evening that a U.S. federal magistrate judge orderedApple to backdoor an iPhone that was used by one of the perpetrators of the San Bernardino shootings in December. Apple is fighting the order which would compromise the security of all its users around the world.

Neither Hillary Clinton nor Bernie Sanders was willing to pick a side Thursday inthe heated battle between the FBI and Apple over the government’s demand that the company create new, less secure software to comply with a warrant.

The tech giant made headlines on Wednesday with its forceful response to a federal judge’s court order that it help the government break into an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino killers, Syed Farook.

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“Apple is doing the right thing in challenging the federal court ruling requiring that it comply,” reads a New York Times editorial today on the battle of the backdoors brewing between the government and the iPhone’s maker.

Apple vs. the FBI

Apple is taking a stand. It’s a strong stand, and an inescapably political one. It’s standing up to the FBI, a federal district court judge, and, by extension, the United States government.

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In 2005, a former AT&T engineer named Mark Klein walked into the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s offices and revealed that he had helped the phone company build a secret NSA surveillance outpost at the Folsom Street switching station, through which AT&T was helping the US government conduct mass, warrantless, domestic surveillance. (more…)

Danny Yadron in The Guardian today wrote a piece entitled “Why do normal people struggle with Twitter?” that, via a conversation with Mathieu, drove me to write this piece. For Yadron’s alludes to an issue that has not been afforded much attention during Twitter’s current woes – namely the very publicness of Twitter.

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If you’ve been on the Web in the past decade, you’ll likely have visited Reddit, Craigslist, Wikipedia, 4Chan, Hacker News, or The Drudge Report at some point. While these sites are all vastly different, they have two things in common: they’re all extremely popular among their audiences and they all look, well, terrible. Web technologies have come so far in the past few years and designers now have a vast array of tools and techniques at their disposal. Yet these sites feature unflattering layouts that have no connection to the modern design philosophies seen around the Web today. Craigslist’s current
Google Voting patent
Google tests and abandons many ideas – but each project it takes the time to look at gives you some window into a future world where it’s running increasingly varied aspects of our lives. Now it’s looking at voting systems. A patent has been filed for a ‘Voter User Interface’ that can be embedded within search results and linked to the social media accounts of relevant “contestants.” The system, the document says, is intended to understand that the search is related to a particular campaign and serves up the relevant poll accordingly. The patent notes that the user will have been ‘authenticated,’ implying this…
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Some big names in tech have formed an alliance to make the confusing Internet of Things (IoT) friendlier.
A New Infographic on TPP and Your Digital Rights

Anyone familiar with the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) may find that it can be challenging to explain to others, in simple terms, how it threatens our rights online and over our digital devices. We often begin by describing the secretive, corporate-captured process of the negotiations that ultimately led to the final deal, then go into some of the specific policies—including its ban on circumventing digital locks (aka Digital Rights Management or DRM), itscopyright term extensions that will lengthen restrictions on creative works by 20 years, and its inclusion of “investor-state” rules that could empower multinational corporations to undermine new user protections in the TPP countries.

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Burning questions that you’re desperate for answers to, and their answers, courtesy of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. (more…)

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According to a study by George Washington University, ISIS isn’t having much luck recruiting new members or spreading propaganda messages on Twitter these days. The report, released today, found fewer than 1,000 easily-accessible English-language accounts and that those accounts had a relatively limited reach, as user activity was limited to mostly interacting with each other. The findings have to be considered a huge win for the US, and Twitter, with the latter removing over 125,000 accounts since the middle of 2015, most of which were linked to the Islamic State. “Suspensions have a measurable effect in suppressing the activity of ISIS…
Twitter has released the latest update of it’s Transparency Report, showing the amount of copyright infringements, takedown requests and tweet removals the platform was called upon to enforce in the second half of 2015.

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Saturday, February 20, 2016

A report says Istanbul among Europe’s ‘Big Four’ megacities… Istanbul news roundup…

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Istanbul among Europe’s ‘Big Four’ megacities: report

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ANKARA – Istanbul now sits firmly among Europe’s “Big Four” megacities alongside London, Moscow and Paris, according to an international .

Orhan Pamuk and Elif Shafak: Istanbul, city of dreams and nightmares

As his Museum of Innocence comes to Britain, the Nobel prizewinner takes his fellow author Elif Shafak on a tour of his cabinet of curiosities. They talk about what Istanbul means to them – and the collective amnesia of a country where writers can be jailed for a tweet

According to statistics released by ACI Europe, Istanbul’s Atatürk has become the third busiest airport of Europe in 2015 with a 9.1 percent increase of passengers, bringing its total to nearly 62 million visitors

Turkish films from !f İstanbul to make online splash at Festival Scope

The Turkish documentary “#resistayol” is among films that will be streamed on Festival Scope as part of the 15th !f İstanbul International Independent .
The new section “Altered States” introduced exclusively for this year on !f İstanbul Independent Film Festival includes also the production “Tekerleme (Tongue Twister)” which has focussed on the post 80s Turkey but has fallen off the map after being displayed on Berlinale Film Festival.

 Trendy İstanbul neighborhood mobilizes to stand against urban renewal

Locals of İstanbul’s fashionable Cihangir neighborhood are mobilizing to ameliorate their community’s living space, and keep Housing Development
Istanbul’s only chamber music festival, the 5th International Opus Amadeus Chamber Music Festival, will be held between Feb. 11 and March 2, featuring selected works of baroque, classical, romantic and modern music
Beyoğlu City Defense members have protested against Preservation Board No.2 approving restoration project of Narmanlı Inn.
Istanbul took ninth place, and Antalya was ranked 11th in Euromonitor’s “Top 100 City Destinations” list, a report which monitors the number of international tourist arrivals has said

Inception-Like Digital Manipulations of Istanbul Landscapes

Inception-Like Digital Manipulations of Istanbul… Il y a 13 heures • 31. Cold Weather Phenomenon Displaying Beautiful Light Pillars in the Sk

Soundscapes of İstanbul explored at ANAMED exhibition

An exhibition that opened in January at Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) in İstanbul not only offers its visitors a
The Istanbul Modern Cinema is continuing its Rendezvous with Directors series of meetings with prominent and critically acclaimed Turkish directors, welcoming Zeki Demirkubuz as its third guest

Innocence of Memories opens in select UK cinemas on 29 January by Soda Pictures. Orhan Pamuk’s novel The Museum of Innocence is published by Faber & Faber.

Nationalism Meets the Sex Trade: İstanbul’s District of Beyoğlu/Pera During the Early Twentieth Century  by İrvin Cemil Schick [1]

Paper presented at the Amherst and Hampshire Colleges Workshop on “Crossing Borders: ‘Unusual’ Negotiations over the Secular, Public, and Private” Amherst College, 16–18 February 2009

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Istanbul Street Cats Take Over Historic Mosque

Istanbul Cats Middle East. Efe pictured at his mosque in a photograph published to his Facebook page on January 15, 2016. Mustafa Efe.

Why We Keep Coming Back to Istanbul

I’m pretty sure it was a cucumber, a crunchy Çengelköy cucumber, that hooked me onIstanbul. That cuke—allied with a briny slab of feta-like beyaz
Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia Museum remained Turkey’s most visited tourist attraction last year, according to data released by the Culture and Tourism Ministry
The 12th edition of the Istanbul Japanese Film Festival will take place from Feb. 4 to Feb. 13, in association with the Japanese General Consulate of Istanbul, the Japan Foundation and Akbanksanat
Renowned Turkish photographer and digital artist Aydın Büyüktaş presents Istanbul in a new light in his latest series “Flatland”

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Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Ayşe Özer: “Maymuncuk liste” [CHP Kurultay Yazısı]

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Kovboy filmlerindeki arkası boş dekorlara benzeyen bir platoda, herkes şovunu yapıyor sanki. Ezberler yerinde, ezber bozana da izin yok. Heyecan da yok, ruh da. Konuşma Türkçesinden haberdar değil kimseler, -cağızlar ve -ceğizler havada uçuşuyor, gelecek zaman kipinde beden dilini çok iyi kullanan hamasi nutuklar atılıyor kürsülerden. Bangır bangır çalan müzikle hem oyuncuların samimiyetsizlikleri, yetersizlikleri, hem de cılız muhalif sesler bastırılıyor. Bir taşla beş kuş vuruluyor. Değişim mi? Olmaz mı? Bu kez salonun tepesine renkli balonlar asılmış. 3 ay önce bombaların patladığı tren garının karşısında umut örgütlenecek dediler, geldik.

Herkes “bir şey olayım” derdinde. Bağzı arkadaşlardan bağzı sıfatları alın, geri neyi kalır ki? “İşsizim genel başkan yardımcısı olmak istiyorum” şeklinde ilanlar var kapılarda. Adam haklı beyler, MYK bir istihdam kapısına dönüşmüş olabilir, ona bir bakalım. “Size yedirmezler”cilerle, “siyaset uzun solukludur”cular gizli bir ittifak halindeler, aman makamımıza bir şey olmasın telaşında hepsi. “Sağolun abiler, biz tokuz!” diyenleri ağırlamak zor, tok olduklarından. Hak edilmeden alınmış her sandalye bizi faşizme mahkum ederken, seçim değil, kurultay kazanma derdinde salonun çoğunluğu. Herkes her şeyden aşırı derecede şikayetçi, ancak o peynir gemisini yürüten kaptan bunu zaten çok iyi biliyor. Her seçim sonucunda sosyal medyada AKP seçmenine “koyun” demeyi alışkanlık haline getiren ve her seçim yenilgisini bu şekilde izah eden partililerin bu mesajına karşılık, salonun girişinde kaval satılıyor. Zamanlama ve mekan itibariyle manidar.

Rakibini kimlik ve mezhep siyaseti yapmakla suçlayanlar aynı anlayışı bir zararlı böcek gibi dev çınarın içine yerleştirmiş. O çınardan yeni filizler çıkmasına da o filizler kendinden olduğu sürece izin veriyor. Kendinden olmayanların hepsine ayrık otu muamelesi yapılıyor. Sürgün vermeden kesiliyor başları. Siyasetin en kirli hali, bir hayalet gibi dolaşıyor salonda. Yeni Tuğçe Kazazlar(cinsiyet ayrımı olmaksızın) yetişsin isteniyor ki, kanaatimize önder bulamayalım.

Ortam yanık yanık ego kokuyor. Ondandır belki bazılarımızda bir mide bulantısı. Doğum sancısı öncesi demek zor, zira bu salonda bir şey doğurmaya niyeti yok büyüklerimizin. Doğanı da öldürmeye niyetli bir bulanıklık var. Yol tutuyor Anadolu’dan gelen delegeyi, iç kulaktaki denge sistemi bangır bangır müzikle daha da bir bozuluyor. Sistem doğuramadığı için kusuyor. Herkes birbirinden hamile, herkes birbirine gebe. Ama topraktan, ateşten ve denizden doğanların en mükemmeli bu salondan doğamıyor.

Blok liste mi, çarşaf liste mi tartışmaları arasında, çarşaf liste +anahtar liste formülüyle demokrasicilik oynanıyor. Yine bir taşla beş kuş vuruluyor. Turnayı gözünden vuranlar, turnanın kalbinden dem vuranları hayli sağ bir kroşeyle dümdüz ediyor. Barış güvercinini vuruyorlar o taşlarla.

Seçmenine iki anahtar vadeden sarışın güzel kadın gibi, delegeye anahtar ve maymuncuk listesi vadediliyor. Parola anahtar, işareti maymuncuk. Anahtar liste belirli bir güruh dışında kimsenin kalbinin anahtarı olamıyor. Gönüllerde yer alanlar, listelerde yer bulamıyorlar kendilerine. Maksimum 1500 adet listenin matbaada basılması saatler sürüyor. Belli ki anahtar liste üzerindeki pazarlıklar bitmiyor. Bir seçim saati bile ilan edilmiyor seçim kurulundan. “Anahtar liste çıktı!” haberi ölüm haberi gibi hızla yayılıyor salonda. Anahtar çıkıyor çıkmasına da, o da yetmiyor, bunun bir de maymuncuğu var. Onun çıkması bekleniyor bu kez. Divandan anons yapılıyor “aman karıştırmayın genel başkanın listesi budur” diye. Divan, evrimimizi tamamlamamıza izin vermiyor.

Maymuncuk garip bir alet, kendi eviniz olmayan birtakım evlere, hak etmediğiniz halde birilerinin mahremine girmek için kullanılıyor genellikle. Genel başkanının sözünden çıkmayacak olanlar listesi elden ele dolaşıyor. Her seferinde bu kadar sözlerinden çıkmayacak insanı bulmak da ayrı bir zorluk, genel başkan gerçekten çok çalışıyor.

Adorno’nun dediği gibi parti burjuvazisi hoşgörülü neyse ki, herkesi olduğu gibi seviyor, çünkü onların olabileceklerinden nefret ediyorlar. İsminde halk olan partide, “makbul vatandaş” PM’yi işgal ettiğinden, halk PM’ye giremiyor. Fırat kenarında bir kuzuyu kurt kapıyor, vebali hep bu “kurt siyasetçiler”in boynuna. İlla bir sandalye talebiniz varsa değerli büyüğüm, tarih size sanık sandalyesini verecektir, merak etmeyiniz.

Salonda bangır bangır “güzel günler göreceğiz” şarkısı, o devasa devrim şarkısı çalıyor. Salonda güzel günler göreceğimizin hiçbir işareti yok. Devrim şarkılarını rakı sofralarında söyletmeyenler, her notada biraz daha kirleniyorlar. Malatya Gençlik Kollarının taptaze üyelerinin daha birkaç ay önce omuz omuza yittiği yerin, garın tam karşısında, salonun tribünlerinde “unutmayacağız!” sloganlarıyla resimleri asılı. Varın biraz da siz oyalanın abilerim, ablalarım. Bizim o çocuklara bir iktidar değil, bir devrim borcumuz var. Haydi bakalım ticari, bekleme yapma.

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