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Saturday, July 9, 2016

:) Cyberculture agenda: “olds are slowly taking over Snapchat

Sorry teens, olds are slowly taking over Snapchat

The Next Web by Natt Garun

Move over, teens. Your parents, aunts, and uncles are getting in on the Snapchat action. According to the Wall Street Journal, 14 percent of US smartphone users aged 35 and above use Snapchat, up from 2 percent three years ago.

Hacker Lexicon: What Are CNE and CNA?

Wired Top Stories by Kim Zetter

Two types of cyberattacks may sound similar, but they’re quite different in practice.

ISIS is using encrypted apps to sell sex slaves

Mashable! by The Associated Press

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KHANKE, Iraq — The advertisement on the Telegram app is as chilling as it is incongruous: A girl for sale is “Virgin. Beautiful. 12 years old…. Her price has reached $12,500 and she will be sold soon.”

The Rise of Ad Blocking Is Changing Digital Marketing (Report)

All Facebook by Kimberlee Morrison

The marketing industry often works toward incremental change in search of greater profits. For example, spending millions fighting for a slightly higher percentage of engagement or increased ROI. However, there’s a challenge to marketers that is costing marketers billions: ad blocking. New data fromeMarketer predicts that ad blocking will only become an ever larger obstacle for marketers.

The internet is causing you all these new-age ‘mental disorders’

The Next Web

While back in the early 2000s many doubted its legitimacy, these days most would agree that internet addiction is no laughing matter.

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Anthropology roundup: “Introducing the Public Anthropology Institute…

Journalism agenda: ” SMART News Agency is telling stories from Syria in virtual reality…

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How SMART News Agency is telling stories from Syria in virtual reality

Journalism.co.uk

‘We are doing VR also for credibility, because you let the viewer be the witness inside Syria’

Inside Infomagical, Note to Self’s crowdsourcing project to find out how people deal with information overload

Journalism.co.uk

Using audio, voicemails and texts, Infomagical is a five-day experiment that crowdsources data and stories about how people consume information online

In 60 days, drone journalism will be legally possible in any U.S. newsroom

Nieman Journalism Lab by Matt Waite

In 60 days, drone journalism will be legally possible in any newsroom in the United States. That’s not to say it will be easy, but it will be legally possible in ways that it has never been before.

How ARTE monitors the way people interact with its 360-degree videos

Journalism.co.uk

To improve its use of virtual reality and 360-degree video, European TV network ARTE analyses how people watch the videos inside the ARTE360 app

The Slack app Carebot is a prototype that seeks to help change how we think about analytics

Nieman Journalism Lab by Taylyn Washington-Harmon

If you work at a digital news organization, you’re likely surrounded by numbers: pageviews, shares, clicks. But how do you move past one-size-fits-all stats (and analytics programs designed more for brands and retailers than journalists) to the numbers you should really care about?

How to create data-centric, interactive web pages with Silk

Journalism.co.uk

Do you have an interesting dataset at your disposal, but feel less comfortable with the technical skills required to illustrate it? Check out Silk

Tip: Check out this advice for filtering valuable eyewitness media in the online chatter

Journalism.co.uk

How can you quickly spot a fake claim or piece of material online?

A Boston journalism nonprofit is among the first publishers to sell subscriptions on Medium

Nieman Journalism Lab by Laura Hazard Owen

Most of the publishers using Medium would describe themselves as small, or small-ish. But sites like The Ringer and The Awl are huge compared to the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, which also began monetizing on Medium in June.

Tip: How to protect your sources and their private information

Journalism.co.uk

Take note of these security tools and advice for journalists

WATCH: So you want to be a data journalist?

Journalism.co.uk

The Guardian’s George Arnett gives us an insight into the developing industry of data journalism and explains the skills you need for the job

7 types of political hoaxes you’ll see this US presidential election

First Draft News

In early June, a man posted an image on Facebook of a bloodied woman who he said was attacked at a Trump rally because she supported his candidacy. “The result of Fascism in America,” wrote Greg McCurdy.

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The Washington Post is using Slack to create a reader community focused on the gender pay gap

Nieman Journalism Lab by Ricardo Bilton

Slack, already an indispensable tool within newsrooms, is becoming a surprisingly effective community tool for publishers as well.

Back in April, The Washington Post launched Pay Up, a Slack-based community aimed at women in the tech sector. One part career support group, one part networking tool, the group has quickly become home to discussions about the male-female wage gap, salary negotiation tactics, and news about job openings.

Facebook is making its News Feed a little bit more about your friends and a little less about publishers

Nieman Journalism Lab by Joshua Benton

Has your employer built its audience strategy around Facebook traffic? Welp, today’s not a good day for you. Facebook announced today it is changing its News Feed algorithm to give more weight to content and links shared by friends and family — and less weight to what publishers share:

What news organisations can do to protect journalists reporting from conflict zones

Journalism.co.uk

Good judgement and experience matter, but journalists and freelancers should also be provided with training and a risk assessment before travelling to a dangerous location

A few figures and facts about The Washington Post’s digital transition under Jeff Bezos

Nieman Journalism Lab by Laura Hazard Owen

New York magazine’s Gabriel Sherman takes a look at The Washington Post under the leadership of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in this week’s issue. Some tidbits, most of which have an “according to sources” attached, from the article:

3 publisher strategies for making money from online news video

Journalism.co.uk

Latest RISJ report reveals how publishers are monetising video content on their websites and elsewhere

Tip: Try these open-source investigative journalism tools

Journalism.co.uk

You can never have too many open-source tools in your arsenal

How BuzzFeed wants to use its social media acumen to take on the hoaxers

First Draft News

Almost a year to the day after launching its Canadian edition, BuzzFeed announced this week that it would be closing its Ottawa bureau and re-locating staff to the US.

Some outlets sold the news as BuzzFeed succumbing to the “pressure” of digital publishing affecting much of the industry, of a bureau in Ottawa that had served its purpose in covering the Canadian election and was no longer relevant to the organisation’s plans.

“Medium’s team did everything”: How 5 publishers transitioned their sites to Medium

Nieman Journalism Lab by Laura Hazard Owen

“Even 15 years after Blogger, it’s still hard to publish on the internet,” a Medium executive told a group of publishers this past spring. Medium has now made it its mission to make publishing easier: After a few years of back-and-forth aboutwhether it was a publisher or a platform (or, ugh, a platisher), the company has stepped firmly into the platform camp.

The future of journalism is jargon

The Next Web by Abhimanyu Ghoshal

Earlier this month, Tribune Publishing Co., a 168-year-old newspaper publisher that’s been home to the Los Angeles Times, the Baltimore Sun and Chicago Tribune, changed its name to tronc.

The case for newsgames: Why newsrooms should ‘gain a fluency in games and play’

Journalism.co.uk

Newsrooms should not stand on the sidelines when it comes to understanding and creating gaming experiences

US Elections: Make your social monitoring great again

First Draft News by Dig Deeper

With just over four months to go until America heads to the polls for one of the most controversial elections the country has seen, it is time to get your election monitoring up to the standard you’ll need for this event — wherever in the world you are covering it from.

#Brexit round-up: How the British media is covering the aftermath of the EU referendum

Journalism.co.uk

News outlets covered the referendum results using Facebook Live, crowdsourced reactions, push alerts in Apple Wallet and other creative methods

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A new controversial project for Istanbul announced abruptly! #KabataşaDokunma

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Out of nowhere Istanbul municipality announced a new project for a busy transportation sea vessels hub: Kabataş. The project to be completed in 3 years… Activists on alert:

Odd jobs in Istanbul for young Syrians who dreamed big

Hurriyet Daily News

But Ahmad has no regrets over his decision to head to Istanbul two years ago — even though he earns only 900 Turkish liras ($310) a month as a …

Odd jobs in Istanbul for young Syrians who dreamed big – Your Middle East

Istanbul attack could be result of Turkey, EU ignoring Moscow’s ‘signals’ – Kremlin

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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan (L) looks at pictures of Ataturk airport employees who were killed in Tuesday’s attack on the airport, during his visits …

Istanbul attack could be result of Turkey, EU ignoring Moscow’s ‘signals’ – Kremlin – euronews

No credible info on Russian citizens being involved in Istanbul terror attack, – says Peskov – Armenpress.am

Russia warnings to Turkey & EU on suspected terrorists ignored – Kremlin – RT

Je Suis Istanbul (& Dhaka & Baghdad & Medina)

Common Dreams (press release)

Family members and friends of the victims of the Istanbul attack paid tribute at a memorial service last week at Ataturk Airport. (Photo: Emrah Gurel/AP).

UNESCO to discuss sites destroyed by ISIL, heritage list inIstanbul

Hurriyet Daily News

U.N. cultural agency UNESCO will gather inIstanbul on July 10 to review candidates to join its prestigious World Heritage List, ranging from

PHOTOS: The Beauty of IstanbulCan’t Be Extinguished

Advocate.com

Liam Campbell states, “Istanbul [is] Turkey’s (as well as Europe’s) largest city. It’s also the LGBT capital of the Moslem world with a vibrant society

Sleepless by the strait: my haunting return to Istanbul

Spectator.co.uk

My connection with Istanbul is a swinging pendulum. I love the city dearly; I go back to it — her, for Istanbul is a She City — with a pounding heart

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Erdoğan in NATO Summit…

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(Reuters/Kacper Pempel)

Not too impressed with the air show…

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Olive branches and bombs: President Erdogan and Turkey’s precarious politics
New Statesman
Ergenekon Sungec, a young Turkish travel agent, finally had reason to smile again last week. For months, the gaudy hotels across the road from his office in the Turkish resort town of Kundu have been half empty. The big-spending Russians who used to

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Erdoğan calls on NATO to show more effort on issues effecting Turkey’s security

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called on NATO to put more effort into combating developments that especially affect Turkey’s security, while also urging the organization to be more active and up-to-date amid the rapidly changing nature of security threats

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Iceland is not only a football hero but “Internet’s undisputed champions…Cyberculture agenda….

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Iceland are out of the Euros, but they’re still the Internet’s undisputed champions

Mashable! by Sam Haysom

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LONDON — Iceland may have been beaten 5-2 by France and knocked out of the Euro 2016 football tournament in the quarter finals, but their legend will live on.

Iceland’s epic ‘viking clap’ celebration caps off a dream summer at Euro 2016

Mashable! by Johnny Lieu

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Iceland may have been knocked out Sunday after a heroic effort at the 2016 Euro soccer competition, but it’s the team’s viking clap that will live on in our memories.

One of the copyright’s scummiest trolls loses his law license

Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

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For more than four years, we’ve chronicled the sleazy story of Prenda Law, a copyright troll whose extortion racket included genuinely bizarre acts of identity theft, even weirder random homophobic dog-whistles, and uploading their own porn movies to entrap new victims, and, naturally, an FBI investigation into the firm’s partners’ illegal conduct.

Japan’s first VR porn festival shutdown because too many people wanted to come

The Next Web by Juan Buis

With VR technology rapidly evolving and becoming a mainstay in the consumer market, naturally the adult entertainment industry wants to get their hands on it — and that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

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Thursday, July 9, 2015

New photo from Facebook July 09, 2015 at 03:59PM

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Announcement: blog on parenting and digital media …

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Before we finish the academic year, and parents begin the summer childcare/work juggle, we wanted to give you the latest updates from our blog on parenting and digital media. As our goal is to give parenting advocates, researchers and parents access to cutting-edge research, including from our current project on Parenting for a Digital Future, here’s a few things to mull on over the summer…(Click here to subscribe, if you haven’t already).

Since we last wrote, we have kept on top of breaking news and public debates in ON OUR MINDS. We’ve been asking what difference the ‘digital’ makes – it is a word on everyone’s lips but is rarely examined. We invited UK advocacy organisation the NSPCC to tell us about their work to convince social networking sites to try harder to keep kids safe, given that parents feel increasingly challenged by keeping up with the latest apps. A panel for parent bloggers led us to reflect on the benefits and dangers of‘sharenting’ and building a digital footprint for your children. Another guest post helped us to understand the current craze for watching ‘unboxing’ videos on YouTube.

In FROM OUR NOTES we draw on our current research with children, families and digital media in the UK and US. We explored the cycle of how the way that parents understand ‘the future’ impacts on how they parent in the present and how they parent in the present can have long-term implications. Our observations in the homes of families with very young children resulted in both UK-focused and European posts. And we added to our book reviews with Selwyn’s ‘distrusting educational technology’.

Continuing with our insights from AROUND THE WORLD, guest bloggers reflected on digital technology and today’s global children. The latest posts discuss the digital lives of urban youth in London, the challenges of parenting a disabled child in the US, the idea that ‘Facebook surveillance = parental love’ in Singapore, and Brazilian findings that kids are going online there far ahead of their parents.

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And do get in touch if you’d like to contribute.

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Ayşe Özer: Bir kilo kömür mü ağırdır, bir kilo asma yaprağı mı?

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Bir kilo kömür mü ağırdır, bir kilo asma yaprağı mı?

“40 tane oyalı yazması varmış kızın çeyizinde” dedi kadın. Asma yaprağı desenli yazmaların kenarına pamuk elleriyle işlemiş ipek oyaları. Yükte hafif pahada ağır olurdu oyalı yazmalar eloğlunun akrabasının gözünde. Gözünün nuru, çok çeyiz görmüş geçirmiş kadınların gözlerini kamaştırırdı. Kalem gibi yaprak sarmalarını da o kalem parmaklarıyla sarardı sevdiğine. Yeter ki mutlu olsundu yuvası. Şehir kadınları gibi tam tur pırlantalar istemezdi kocasından. Yükte hafif, pahada ağır olsundu sevdaları. “Önde zeytin ağaçları, arkasında yar” diye bir şarkı vardı ilk evlendiklerinde, zeytinlikte hasatta söylemişti kocası ilkin. Zeytin gözlüydü sevdiği, hani şu en az bulunanından. Zeytinleri söküldüğü gün ağırlaştı zeytin gözlüsünün bakışları, her çatırtıda biraz daha kırıldı. “Karşıki köye elma toplamaya gideriz, sen üzülme” dedi kadın. Davul fırınının üstüne örttüğü, kendi elleriyle işlediği kanaviçe örtüdeki elmalardan, kıpkırmızı olanlarından toplarlardı birlikte. İki el, bir baş içindi. Hem ilk gördüğünde zeytin gözlüsünü, yanakları yeni kızarmış yazlık elma gibi olmamış mıydı? Cildi parlak kağıt kaplı, pahalı bir kitapta anlatılmıyordu sevda, bembeyaz etaminin üzerinde solmayan bir narçiçeği kanaviçeydi onlarınki, “bütün çizgilerinin hikayesi bilinen”.

Soldu elmalar da, o işten de umduklarını bulamadılar sonra. “Asma yaprağı toplanacak” dediler, kilosu 1 liraya. Saplarından tutup, üst üste dizip yaprakları, salamura yaparlardı anasıyla. Koca bir deste bir kilo gelmezdi, biliyordu. Ağır bastı yokluk, bindiler kamyonete. Yükte hafifti velakin, pahada da ağır değildi emekleri. “İş kazası diye bir şey yoktur” dedi kamyonetin cızırtılı radyosundaki kamu spotu. İş yoksa, kaza da olmazdı. “Madde mi ağır, mana mı?” diye sormuyordu kimseler. Devletin ve tabiatın ortak soruları şuydu: “Bir kilo kömür mü ağırdır, bir kilo asma yaprağı mı?”, “2 gün üst üste giyilen gömleğin bedelini kim öder?” “Evlat acısı mı ağırdır yükte, yoksa eş acısı mı?”

Mevsimlik aşklar çağında, her dem taze bir umudun yolcuları dizdiler asma yapraklarını üst üste. Her biri nereden baksan 10 gram. Çeyiz sandıklarına gömüldüler kadınlar. Her birinin düşlerinin üzerinde sarı sandık lekeleri. Asma yapraklı yazmalar örtüldü tabutlarının üzerine. Her biri nereden baksan 21 gram. Aile bakanlığı her genç kıza bilmem kaç akçe çeyiz parası verdi.

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