Thursday, June 22, 2017
Saturday, June 3, 2017
A protester, Veli Saçılık, was the target rubber bullets:
Melda Onur @meldaonur
Bu nasıl fotoğraf yahu! Bu devletin başbakanı, bakanı, emniyet genel müdürü falan zaten geçtim, polis dediğin insan evladı değil mi ya! http://pic.twitter.com/Ueu5dm1ozE
Despite brutal police attacks, Veli Saçılık continues to demand his job back, and "resist for, and on behalf of, humanity" @velisacilik http://pic.twitter.com/RttvF9MSwF
— BarışAkademisyenleri (@BarisAkademik) June 2, 2017
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Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Culture wars Turkish style: TV stations fined for Victoria’s Secret show; TV dating shows banned with new state of emergency decree…
Turkey bans TV dating shows with new state of emergency decree
The online encyclopedia Wikipedia is inaccessible in Turkey, with officials saying it was blocked as an “administrative measure” thereby explaining why the courts weren’t involved. Turkish media says the government asked Wikipedia to take stuff down, but was ignored.
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Tuesday, April 25, 2017
As European Commission urges ‘different type of relations’ with Turkey, “Ankara prosecutors launch probe into ex-French diplomat for ‘inciting’ Erdoğan’s assassination…
US: Turkish man charged with serious national security crime
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Tuesday, February 28, 2017
This semester’s issue on my “Issues in Cyberculture Studies (MED 512)” course: “Web history and digital archiving”
Former President Turgut Özal, opening up “a new computer system” at Middle East Technical University in 1990. Source: http://ift.tt/2m7zWGo
This semester I have mobilized my classes and academic environment to create a database for Turkey’s internet history. There will be a series of works attached to this project (including a wiki based database) but in the mean time in one of my graduate level courses at Istanbul Bilgi University, Communication School, I have decided to take a highly theoretical approach to web history and digital archiving in general. Here is the reading and discussion list. Enjoy!
Week 2 Intros
Atkinson, S., & Whatley, S. (2015). Digital archives and open archival practices.
Salmond, A. (2012). Digital subjects, cultural objects: Special issue introduction.
Were, G. (2013). Imaging digital lives.
Brügger, N. (2013). Web historiography and Internet Studies: Challenges and perspectives. New Media & Society, 15(5), 752-764.
Week 3 Narratives
Bory, P., Benecchi, E., & Balbi, G. (2016). How the Web was told: Continuity and change in the founding fathers’ narratives on the origins of the World Wide Web. new media & society, 18(7), 1066-1087.
Stevenson, M. (2016). The cybercultural moment and the new media field. new media & society, 1461444816643789.
Beer, D., & Burrows, R. (2013). Popular culture, digital archives and the new social life of data. Theory, culture & society, 30(4), 47-71.
Week 4 Historiography
Schafer, V., & Thierry, B. G. (2016). The “Web of pros” in the 1990s: The professional acclimation of the World Wide Web in France. new media & society, 18(7), 1143-1158.
Brügger, N. (2013). Web historiography and Internet Studies: Challenges and perspectives. New Media & Society, 15(5), 752-764.
Ankerson, M. S. (2012). Writing web histories with an eye on the analog past. new media & society, 14(3), 384-400.
Musso, M., & Merletti, F. (2016). This is the future: A reconstruction of the UK business web space (1996–2001). new media & society, 18(7), 1120-1142.
Week 5 Archiving
Winget, M. A., & Aspray, W. (Eds.). (2011). Digital media: Technological and social challenges of the interactive world. Scarecrow Press. 1-136
Lothian, A. (2013). Archival anarchies: Online fandom, subcultural conservation, and the transformative work of digital ephemera. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 16(6), 541-556.
Isaac, G. (2015). Perclusive alliances: digital 3-D, museums, and the reconciling of culturally diverse knowledges. Current Anthropology, 56(S12), S286-S296.
Week 6 Archiving
McQuire, S. (2013). Photography’s afterlife: Documentary images and the operational archive. Journal of Material Culture, 18(3), 223-241.
Newell, J. (2012). Old objects, new media: Historical collections, digitization and affect. Journal of Material Culture, 17(3), 287-306.
Dalziell, T., & Genoni, P. (2015). Google comes to Life: Researching digital photographic archives. Convergence, 21(1), 46-57.
Week 7 Archiving
Huc-Hepher, S. (2015). Big Web data, small focus: An ethnosemiotic approach to culturally themed selective Web archiving. Big Data & Society, 2(2), 2053951715595823.
Udupa, S. (2015). Archiving as History‐Making: Religious Politics of Social Media in India. Communication, Culture & Critique.
Pietrzyk, K. (2012). Preserving digital narratives in an age of present-mindedness. Convergence, 18(2), 127-133.
Abba, T. (2012). Archiving digital narrative: Some issues. Convergence, 18(2), 121-125.
Week 8 Institutional responses
Popple, S. (2015). The new Reithians: Pararchive and citizen animateurs in the BBC digital archive. Convergence, 21(1), 132-144.
Sean Cubitt, Library. Theory, Culture & Society (http://tcs.sagepub.com) (SAGE Publications, London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi) Vol. 23(2–3): 581–606. DOI: 10.1177/0263276406063783
Week 9 Erasure
Harris, S. K. (2015). Networked erasure Visualizing information censorship in Turkey. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 21(2), 257-278.
Aufderheide, P., Milosevic, T., & Bello, B. (2016). The impact of copyright permissions culture on the US visual arts community: The consequences of fear of fair use. new media & society, 18(9), 2012-2027.
Week 10 Memory
Reading, A. (2014). Seeing red: a political economy of digital memory. Media, Culture & Society, 0163443714532980.
Cooke, G., & Reichelt-Brushett, A. (2015). Archival memory and dissolution: The after| image project. Convergence, 21(1), 8-26.
Keightley, E., & Schlesinger, P. (2014). Digital media–social memory: remembering in digitally networked times. Media, Culture & Society, 36(6), 745-747.
Week 11 Cases
Frick, C. (2015). Repatriating American film heritage or heritage hoarding? Digital opportunities for traditional film archive policy. Convergence, 21(1), 116-131.
Ben-David, A. (2016). What does the Web remember of its deleted past? An archival reconstruction of the former Yugoslav top-level domain. new media & society, 1461444816643790.
Knifton, R. (2015). ArchiveKSA: Creating a digital archive for Kingston School of Art. Convergence, 21(1), 27-45.
Week 12 Cases
De Kosnik, A., El Ghaoui, L., Cuntz-Leng, V., Godbehere, A., Horbinski, A., Hutz, A., … & Pham, V. (2015). Watching, creating, and archiving: Observations on the quantity and temporality of fannish productivity in online fan fiction archives. Convergence, 21(1), 145-164.
Ageh, T. (2015). Digital public space. h ttp://thecreativeexchange. org/launchpad. Accessed, 8.
Liew, K. K., Pang, N., & Chan, B. (2014). Industrial railroad to digital memory routes: remembering the last railway in Singapore. Media, Culture & Society, 0163443714532984.
Week 12 Cases
Edwards-Vandenhoek, S. (2015). You aren’t here Reimagining the place of graffiti production in heritage studies. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 21(1), 78-99.
Blanco, P. P., Schuppert, M., & Lange, J. (2015). The digital progression of community archives, from amateur production to artistic practice: A case study of Belfast Exposed. Convergence, 21(1), 58-77.
Week 13 Cases
Kaun, A., & Stiernstedt, F. (2014). Facebook time: Technological and institutional affordances for media memories. New Media & Society, 16(7), 1154-1168.
Ashuri, T. (2012). (Web) sites of memory and the rise of moral mnemonic agents. new media & society, 14(3), 441-456.
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