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Sunday, December 25, 2016
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#DigitalDiplomacy “U.S. Mission Japan’s Love Dance….
U.S. Mission Japan’s rendition of the popular KoiDance (Love Dance)
Published on Dec 20, 2016
Ambassador Kennedy and U.S. Mission Japan staff in Tokyo, Sapporo, Nagoya, Osaka, Fukuoka, and Naha got into the holiday spirit and showed off their dance moves. Check out our rendition of the “Koi Dance” (Love Dance) from one of the most popular TV shows in Japan this season.
Music:
“Koi” by Gen Hoshino / SPEEDSTAR RECORDS : A Division of Victor Entertainment
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Despite recent debates on fake news and the virility of rumors and gossip, it is important to remember that social media users are intelligent, curious and eager to learn about events shaping their world. More specifically, digital diplomacy followers are often interested in insight and analysis of global events. For this reason, narratives may play an important role in digital diplomacy. Narratives offer a clear explanation of complex events. Moreover, narratives demonstrate how seemingly disconnected events relate to one another. Finally, narratives offer a frame through which the world makes sense.
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A tribute to the Red Army Choir…
A Russian military plane crashed on its way to Syria on Dec. 25, likely killing all 92 people onboard, including dozens of Red Army Choir members heading to celebrate the New Year with troops
A Russian Defence Ministry TU-154 plane that had disappeared from radar over the Black Sea with 91 people on board has crashed, the Interfax news agency reported on DEc. 25, citing an unidentified source.
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A crude neo-Ottoman imaginary:
Shared by a pro-gov’t columnist, Ömer Turan.
In Diyarbakir city, the informal Kurdish capital, a legacy of intense fighting between Kurdish rebels and the Turkish military.
If you donate enough, you can be listed as one of the state elders in Turkey as the Qatari leader did in Trabzon Akyazı Stadium.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Dec. 24 that Turkey will never allow the formation of a new state in northern Syria
Ensconced in a battle for al-Bab, Turkey is already looking to march on SDF-controlled Manbij, President Erdoğan declares
More than 1,500 people were taken into custody over the last six months on charges of promoting terrorism on social media, the Turkish Interior Ministry said in a statement on Dec. 24.
President Erdoğan managed to hold on to power in July, but a crackdown on liberals and secularists has turned survival into a game of chance
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#Cyberculture Stating the obvious: “Facebook ‘lurking’ is making you miserable
Censorship comes in many forms. Most often, when we talk about it at EFF, we’re talking about the measures that governments take to restrict their citizens’ freedom of expression or access to information. Online, that can mean blocking websites, restricting the right to anonymity, or shutting down the Internet, among other things.
Technology can be beautiful. Technology can also look like it was pulled straight out of hell, crafted from children’s tears. As we look back on the year, it’s easy to see 2016 hasn’t exactly been great for tech design. Yes, there were some beautiful products — just take a look at Sharp’s edgeless concept phone. But mostly everything else has been total shit. We saw the second refresh of a tired iPhone design and laptops that all looked like MacBooks one way or another. But tech design isn’t bad when it’s boring, it’s bad when it’s bad. And oh my, I don’t know where to…
The year started with fireworks: John Legere, CEO of T-Mobile, became furious when an explosive EFF investigation revealed that T-Mobile was throttling video content for many of its customers, potentially violating net neutrality rules. Legere released a colorful selfie video demanding to know who EFF was—and our community responded in force, inundating the tech CEO with countless tweets and messages explaining why people worldwide were proud to count themselves as friends of EFF.
From Uber’s battle surrounding 1099s to Airbnb’s reports of security concerns, sharing economy companies are both finding their niche and dealing with growing pains. While these companies are here to stay, new rules surrounding how they operate are already changing the way they operate. To learn where these companies and rules are headed, I polled 15 entrepreneurs from YEC on the following. How do you think rules or regulations surrounding the sharing economy will play out in the next five years? And how will that affect companies like Uber and Airbnb? Their best answers are below: 1. More Employee Protections These businesses…
In 2016 we won one battle in the fight for the Open Internet – but several others are well underway and we expect Team Internet will have to mobilize once again to protect our gains and prevent further efforts to undermine network neutrality.
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on Thursday unveiled its full 37-page report on its three-year investigation into Edward Snowden, drawing even more criticism for conclusions that have been called biased by supporters of the former NSA contractor.
It used to be people who disrupted the establishment. Now? It’s mostly the establishment.
Ryan McGeehan, who specializes in helping companies recover from data-breaches, reflects on the worst year of data breaches (so far) and has some sound practical advice on how to reduce your risk and mitigate your losses: some easy wins are to get your staff to use password managers and two-factor authentication for their home computers
How a 2011 Hack You’ve Never Heard of Changed the Internet’s Infrastructure
On Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011, an Iranian man who went by the online alias alibo tried to check his email—only to find he couldn’t connect to Gmail. Yet the problem disappeared when he connected to a virtual private network that disguised his location. Whatever was going on, it seemed to only affect computer users in Iran.
With the adoption of Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa, the Internet of Things (IoT) is already part of our home lives. Many of us also use a smart thermostat to monitor the temperature of our living rooms, and maybe even a smart doorbell to keep an eye on the front porch. But what about beyond our homes and yards? The IoT promises to change many aspects of our lives, so I asked 14 entrepreneurs from YEC the following question: What technologies do you think are likely to change the way people do business?
White Ops, a security firm, has published a detailed report on a crime-ring they call “Methbot” that generated $3M-$5M by creating 6,000 fake websites to embed videos in, then generating convincing bots that that appeared to watch 300,000,000 videos/day —
Datification: the ideology that says that data isn’t ideological
Cennydd Bowles’s essay on “Datafication and ideological blindness” attacks the business/product-design vogue to base every decision on “data” on the grounds that data reflects objective truth, free from bias.
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#GazetecilikSuçDeğildir [#JournalismIsNotaCrime] A new wave of journalist arrests after massive social media censorship and crackdown….
efe kerem sozeri reported:
Investigative reporter Tunca Öğreten (@tuncaogreten) detained this morning by a police raid to his house, accused of “terrorism”
Police says the reporter @tuncaogreten will not be allowed to an attorney for 5 days [under state of emergency decree No. 668] +Next to Tunca Öğreten, @dihaberturkce‘s Diyarbakır bureau chief Ömer Çelik and reporter Metin Yoksu detained +Daily BirGun (@BirGun_Gazetesi) also reports their employee Mahir Kanaat detained in a police raid to his house: http://www.http://ift.tt/2hkAl55rgun-gazetesi-calisani-mahir-kanaat-gozaltina-alindi-140767.html …Journos Union: When Turkey is shocked by bombs & soldiers killed by ISIS, journalists are targeted to hide the truth
Investigative reporter Tunca Öğreten (@tuncaogreten) detained this morning by a police raid to his house, accused of "terrorism" + https://t.co/Z73krh40WB
— efe kerem sozeri (@efekerem) December 25, 2016
Turkey investigates 10,000 people for insulting government officials or “supporting terror” online.
The Turkey Blocks monitoring network has detected throttling of Twitter and YouTube affecting many internet users in Turkey.
The restrictions were first observed with fixed mobile operator Uydunet/Turksat and mobile providers Turkcell and Vodafone.The blocks each appear to be implemented at the ISP level.
The types of adjectives generally accompanying articles about the Middle East create a core of “knowledge” that is a distorted and narrow reality.
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Friday, December 25, 2015
Journalism agenda: “Award-Winning Citizen Journalist Ahmad Almossa Killed in Idlib, Syria…
Ahmad Mohamed Almossa, a member of Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS), was assassinated in Idlib, Syria, by unknown masked men, according to a tweet from RBSS.
This article was published by Al Jazeera America on December 3. Al Jazeera’s headquarters in Qatar appear to have blocked the article outside of the United States because it is critical of an ally of Qatar, so we are making it available here to international readers. Read our accompanying piece, Al Jazeera Blocks Anti-Saudi Arabia Article.
Saudi Arabia Uses Terrorism As An Excuse for Human Rights Abuses
By Arjun Sethi
In a new Social Business Engine podcast, Bernie Borges speaks with Kirsten Chiala, Digital Content Manager, Social Media Communications at Cisco, to discuss how her team uses both thought leadership and creative content to its engage their audience.
This is the year the Facebook newsfeed share ~officially~ cedes [some of] its traffic-driving prowess to the messenger-as-platform share, including to its own WhatsApp.
I am not interested in changing the world. I’d rather change the way we talk about it. No, this is not a manifesto for underachievers: To change the world, we need to change the way we think, talk, and write about the institutions, values, and people that give shape to this world.
Truth be told, prognostication is as much about setting out a wish list as it is about grounded predictions. But if you’re reading this, you’re media-savvy enough to know that, so I’ll approach things in that spirit.
When we talk about the future of journalism and wring our hands about “saving the news,” the conversation invariably turns to clicks and shares and ad revenue, rather than the more sorely needed conversation: Is journalism actually serving the public?
Two experiences in 2015 — researching the state of crowdsourcing and mentoring CUNY’s first class of social journalism students — opened my eyes to some striking possibilities for demonstrable journalistic impact.
In 2016, we should expect to see — or perhaps it’s hear — more podcasts as more newsrooms find success with audio content.
This year, news organizations will learn that if they don’t prioritize diversity and inclusivity, their best people will leave for organizations that do. The most incisive journalism will be from newsrooms that have a diverse staff — and top leadership that reflects that diversity.
In the coming year, journalists will experiment with and debate emergent forms of virtual reality and drone witnessing. Virtual reality and drone technology will both continue to challenge journalists on their ideals of objectivity, their ethics of representation, their perceptions of distance and immersion, and the connections they seek with audiences. In short, journalistic witnessing will be increasingly mediated in new substantive ways by technology. Like previous technological leaps in journalism, this evolution will be dependent on the people who created it and how audiences use it. As John Durham Peters wrote, “witness is the paradigm case of a medium: the mean by which the experience is supplied to others who lack the original.”
Back in November we wrote about the preliminary findings of our research into vicarious trauma in the newsroom. In that piece, we illustrated how vicarious trauma is an issue which newsrooms and their managers need to start taking seriously when they have journalists who use newsworthy photographs or videos captured on smartphones by people around the world. That journalists were scared about admitting to their managers that they are having a hard time dealing with some of the more distressing images they see day in, day out.
Some doors will open and some doors will close in 2016.
Wave after wave of alarmist articles in the “Is privacy dead?” genre have desensitized the public to the prospect of an ever-decreasing sphere of private life. But such gloomy articles misrepresent the trend in privacy policy. Major industry stakeholders have determined that protecting privacy is both good for overall social wellbeing and good business. What’s more, meeting consumer privacy desires and expectations is becoming technically feasible through emerging “big privacy” methods. Industry has accepted that the question is not whether privacy will be protected in the digital age, but how and to what extent it will be protected.
In 2016, journalists will recognize that they have to be activists — if they want to call themselves journalists, that is.
In the era of hyperconnection, social classes are divided by speed. Those who manage and operate the speed will also be managers of resources, readers, and customers. In the archaic age of newspaper distributions, the papers that arrived earlier at the kiosks were the first to be bought, and that more grew both readers and advertising. The problem was that they had to build their own distribution systems to be first.
Yes, as we all know, technology makes the work of reporting and distributing news easier than ever before. Hey, I worked in a newsroom without The Internets back in the day myself, pouring over a paper map to see where the hell that zoning board meeting was being held, busting out the phone book to find a source’s number, and hoo boy I’m glad we aren’t there anymore. (Okay, there was one really slow computer in the corner that could crank up AltaVista after a while.)
Not such a long time ago, Facebook launched Instant Articles. And next year, Google launches its open-source version, Accelerated Mobile Pages (or AMP).
2015 saw the return of the paywall as a respectable source of revenue: Niche sites like Pando went all-in, The New York Times hit 1 million digital subscribers, and ad-free digital behemoths like Netflix continued to charge past their traditional brethren. In 2016, we’ll finally stop wringing our hands over whether or not the strategy works and embrace the evidence: People — lots of people, of all ages, incomes, backgrounds, and nationalities — will pay money for good content.
New roles have emerged in journalism to support digital products that integrate data and engagement. Those with web and mobile development skills have been called upon to create special project sites, mobile apps, and interactive user experiences. Most creators of these media products haven’t been considered journalists and have largely been ignored in journalism research and curriculum. These product management roles are often viewed as technology-support, not fundamental to the journalism being produced. But these public-facing products help develop new audiences and provide opportunities for participation, contribution, and interaction with the media.
It’s been two weeks since I sat, mouth agape, brow furrowed, head shaking in disbelief at what I was witnessing on the television monitors in my newsroom. Reporters from major networks had entered the apartment of San Bernardino shooting suspects Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik and were rifling through its contents — on live television.
When my kids turned on the hotel TV the other day, they couldn’t find Netflix.
As you are most certainly aware, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump recentlysuggested that Muslims be banned from entering the United States for a while. In this country, that kind of talk is not illegal — we’re protected by the First Amendment, which guarantees our right to free speech, to give voice to whatever we might believe to be true or wise.
I can’t wait for 2016 — the year that podcasting fully matures into the disruptive mass medium it was always meant to be. The foundation for disruption exists: a wildly exploding diversity of voices, format, listening experiences, and routes to monetization.
In 2013, it was common for publishers to be thinking not only “digital first” but also “mobile first.” By 2014, most content was being consumed this way — on mobile devices.
As most people with children in their lives probably do, I worry about the world my nieces, ages 4 and 7, will face in the future and how they’ll navigate it. I worry about it for some of the obvious reasons: the consequences of climate change, the economy, war, and violence. But another cause of my concern is less common: I’m concerned that news about those all-important topics will not be readily available or even obvious to them and their peers as they grow into adults who, in a previous generation, would be almost predestined to be heavy news consumers.
After shoveling stories across platforms and mastering the art of the “Five things to know for today” listicle, local news organizations will finally begin to “get it” on mobile in 2016. The focus will turn to crafting unique experiences within mobile apps that truly take advantage of the features and benefits of the smartphone platform.
Virtual reality, web videos larded with kinetic text and puppies, oh, and mashups of Olympic swimming, “something green,” and risk management for avery interested prospect targeting millennials. These are all things publishers, consultants, gurus, and ad sales folks will say I need in 2016.
Much has been written about the rise and demise of blogging and the ability for small publishers to thrive, both editorially and financially. Recently, we’ve seen some exciting examples of independent writers forging a new value proposition for their readers. They’ve been able to assemble the tools — however imperfectly — to publish stories, develop and audience and build a business. People like Ben Thompson, whose Stratechery has become a must-read for those in the tech business, and Tim Urban, who has crashed through the definition of blogging onWait But Why, where he recently published a 90,000-plus word epic series on Elon Musk.
Whether you dismiss it as hype or not, the truth is virtual reality technology is coming — and faster than you think. So the biggest challenge the journalism industry faces in 2016 is how can they invest and innovate on an emerging technology that hasn’t gone mainstream yet.
Big data, interactive graphics, and data visualizations will still be cool, but they’ll no longer be the coolest kids on the block.
It’s time to stop using the c-word. “The comment section” has moved in people’s minds from being an empty box on a website into a viper-filled pit of hell. We need to start again. We need to do better.
The Republican presidential debate this week was headlined by confrontations: Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz clashed over immigration and ISIS, while Donald Trump and Jeb Bush argued over whether Trump would be a “chaos candidate.”
Writing for The Guardian from Las Vegas, reporters Sabrina Siddiqui and Paul Lewis wrote that Trump and Bush “scarcely rose above the level of playground taunts about who was toughest,” while Rubio and Cruz engaged in “a series of fiery exchanges.”
I first discovered Italo Calvino’s Six Memos for the Next Millennium in 1995, 10 years after he’d begun writing them for Harvard’s Norton Lectures series. He died unexpectedly just before he was set to embark from Italy to Cambridge to deliver them, after completing five — Lightness, Quickness, Exactitude, Visibility, and Multiplicity.
Journalism is on the comeback trail. It is dawning on everyone that great tech without great content (read: journalism) doesn’t get you there. Standing out is what really matters, especially in a world where the supply of “content” is nearly infinite. Volume doesn’t create value — quality does. Tricks and tropes work for a while, but eventually original reporting, great storytelling and indispensable information win. That’s journalism.
WeChat, WhatsApp, Line, and their brethren never played a big role in my daily life until I moved to Asia earlier this year. The extent to which they became indispensable, because communication happens almost exclusively inside their ecosystems, exposed a missed opportunity for Western news organizations. But I expect that to change. 2016 is the year we’ll see more media companies get serious about chat apps.
How far has the newspaper trade fallen?
It’s been another depressing year for those who value robust local news. Yet Sheldon Adelson’s reluctant outing as the new owner of the Las Vegas Review-Journal caps 2015 in a way that seems both oddly appropriate and further disheartening. Is it the story of one odd newspaper buy, or is it more telling about the state of local news in this country?
After this past year of innovation and tumult, the next twelve months are coming into focus. It’s now clear that in 2016, the original promise of the Internet will be totally, fully realized. Completely.
The problem with metrics is that we really only compete with ourselves, at least on a daily basis. With only our own numbers for comparison, we’re always #winning.
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