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Saturday, February 4, 2017

New photo from Facebook February 04, 2017 at 05:05PM

Prag’ın kuğuları. via Reddit. via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

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#Cyberculture agenda: “The Cyborg Bill of Rights v1.0”

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The Cyborg Bill of Rights v1.0

Boing Boing by Richard MacKinnon

In anticipation of the battle for the body, we can envision a conflict among competing interests in property located within a person’s body and likely connected to externally controlled resources for storage, logging, and monitoring–for instance, a medical device–and we can imagine that someone’s body may contain more than one such synthetic organ, life sustaining system, or other supportive technology–all of which having different owners with different interests and claims on a person’s innards.

Inside Libratus, the Poker AI That Out-Bluffed the Best Humans

Wired Top Stories by Cade Metz

For almost three weeks, Dong Kim sat at a casino and played poker against a machine. But Kim wasn’t just any poker player. And this wasn’t just any machine.

How to keep your secret activist Twitter account a secret

Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

Despite his widely read criticism of Tor, The Gruqq — a legendary, pseudonymous security expert — uses it as first and last line of defense in keeping your secret, activist Twitter account a secret.

ACLU signs on with Y Combinator after $24 million donation

The Social Software Weblog

The ACLU, in an average year, fundraises around $4 million. After stridently opposing Trump’s unconstitutional immigration ban last weekend, the civil liberties watchdog was rewarded by the American public with a windfall of donations totalling $24 m

Alphabet’s Eric Schmidt calls Trump “evil”

Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

Eric Schmidt — long-serving former CEO of Google, current chairman of Google parent-company Alphabet, who knows a thing or two about evil — addressed Googlers this week, calling the Trump #muslimban “evil.”

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According to new @FreedomHouseDC report “Turkey faces largest decline in freedoms in 2016”

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Turkey faces largest decline in freedoms in 2016: Report

Turkey suffered the largest decline in freedoms among 195 countries over the past year, an annual report published by the Washington-based Freedom House showed on Jan. 31.

Turkish Alevis release list of suggestions for ‘pluralistic’ religious education in new curriculum

A Turkish Alevi foundation has released a list of suggestions that was submitted to the Education Ministry on Jan. 30 to demand that officials include lessons on their faith in religious classes amid changes to the country’s curriculum.

How unsolved murders serve power struggles in Turkey
Al-Monitor
In Ergenekon and Sledgehammer, however, some potentially credible aspects were diluted with the addition of fabrications, as a result of which innocent officers were arrested and expelled from the army. After the AKP-Gulen fallout, higher courts

Erdoğan likens 2016 coup to closure of Ottoman Parliament by occupiers in 1920

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has likened last year’s bloody coup attempt to the forced closure of the Ottoman Parliament (Meclis-i Mebusan) by occupying forces in the aftermath of World War I.

Dissidents from opposition MHP form group to say ‘no’ in Turkey’s referendum

Dissident members of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) have announced that they have formed a group to campaign to vote “no” in the upcoming referendum on shifting Turkey to an executive presidential system.

Joint Declaration by pro-Kurdish Bodies in Favor of ‘No’ Votes in Referendum

Bianet :: English

DBP, DTK, HDK, HDP, and Free Women’s Movement have issued a joint declaration against the constitutional amendment draft to be put to referendum.

President Erdoğan expected to hold 40 rallies during referendum campaign

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is expected to travel 40 cities across Turkey to hold rallies during the campaign for the upcoming referendum and to “explain what constitutional changes will bring about for Turkey,” sources told daily Hürriyet over the weekend.

Voting ‘yes’ in charter referendum could support Turkey’s anti-terror fight: Deputy PM Kurtulmuş

Voting “yes” in the upcoming constitutional change referendum could be interpreted as support for the country’s fight against terror, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş stated

Over 130,000 public reviews pour in for Turkey’s controversial draft education curriculum

Over 130,000 reviews have been made from the public for the Education Ministry’s new education curriculum draft, which was opened to revisions and contributions after its announcement on Jan. 13.

Legist Sera Kadıgil Detained

bianet :: English

CHP Party Assembly Member, legist Sera Kadıgil has been detained due to a tweet she posted.

CHP’s Party Assembly Member Sera Kadıgil Released

Bianet :: English

Being detained and sent to court for arrest on charge of “inciting people to hatred and hostility” in a tweet she posted, CHP Party Assembly Member, legist Sera Kadıgil has been released on probation. “Despite all, justice, freedom and ‘no’”, Kadıgil said while leaving the court.

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New photo from Facebook February 04, 2017 at 03:22PM

Saldırı altındayken Gazze… via Reddit. via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

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Thursday, February 4, 2016

So what the frak are the traditional family values that TV broadcasting should conform to in Turkey?

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Turkish media to be inspected on conforming to ‘traditional family values’

Hurriyet Daily News

Measures will be taken in order to ensure that all broadcasts and publications in Turkish media conform to “traditional family values,” according to the government’s official program for 2016

Criteria of ‘Conformity with Traditional Family Values’ for Media

Bianet :: English

The Government plan for 2016 has stated that measures would be taken to provide that all programmes on the media are in conformity with traditional family values.

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New photo from Facebook February 04, 2016 at 03:02PM

İran’ın özel timi gösteri yaparken… via Reddit. via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

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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

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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Did you know that Turkey’s president tries to disappear his photo of kicking a protester?

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An aide to Turkey’s president kicked a protester. Then photos of the assault started disappearing.

Mashable! by Emily Feldman

ISTANBUL — Famous images showing an aide to Turkey’s prime minister kicking a protester in the wake of a national tragedy are slowly vanishing from the internet in Turkey.

How Turkish CNN ‘insulted’ Erdoğan and got sued

There are plenty of TV news channels in Turkey, but among them, CNN Türk stands out

Probe opened into CNN Türk for ‘insulting president’

An investigation was launched on Jan. 25 into CNN Türk on claims that the private broadcaster “insulted” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during a news report on a recent lawsuit opened by Erdoğan against Turkey’s main opposition leader

4 people murdered every day in Turkey in 2015, police records show

There were at least 1,500 homicide victims in 2015 across Turkey in areas under surveillance by the police and where 86 percent of the country’s population lives, police records have shown

New branding strategy tells all to discover Turkey’s potential

As a new branding strategy, “Turkey, discover the potential” implies that there is ‘half-tapped’ potential in the country and thus, provides a win-win to both Turks as well as those who come to explore the opportunities, says Mehmet Büyükekşi of the Turkish Exporters Assemby

Army fails to “respect private life” of a lieutenant, court rules

The Turkish Constitutional Court has ruled the Turkish Armed Forces violated the right of “respecting private life” in an appeal made to the court by dismissed Air Force Lieutenant Ata Türkeri