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Thursday, June 15, 2017

Thuggery sometimes punished: “Two arrested over violent clash during Turkish president’s White House visit…

Turkish Guards Will Be Charged in Embassy Protest, Officials Say

NYT > Turkey by By NICHOLAS FANDOS

Members of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s security detail are to face misdemeanor and felony counts in an attack on protesters in Washington last month.

Two arrested over violent clash during Turkish president’s White House visit

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Associated Press in Washington

Police say Sinan Narin and Eyup Yildirim have been arrested for their role in a violent altercation that took place outside the Turkish ambassador’s residence

Two men have been arrested for their role in a violent altercation outside the Turkish ambassador’s residence during a recent visit to Washington by Turkey’s president, police said Wednesday.

Best and Brightest Turks Go West as Erdogan’s Purge Shows No End

Bloomberg – More stories by Cagan Koc – Jun 13, 7:00 PM

Turkish book agent Barbaros Altug’s reality is starting to resemble some of his most popular fiction, unfortunately for him. Like the family in a client’s newest best-seller, Altug has joined the real-life exodus of Turks leaving their homeland

Reading Erdogan’s Ambitions in Turkey’s New Mosques

NYT > Turkey by Photographs by NORMAN BEHRENDT

A building spree of houses of worship is furthering the Islamicization of the country and providing an ongoing economic engine.

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State of Turkish #journalism: While Cumhuriyet Web Editor released, a former journalist and opposition MP sentenced that triggers Gündem ayarlarını değiştir #AdaletYürüyüşü

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Cumhuriyet Web Editor Oğuz Güven released from jail

The online chief of daily Cumhuriyet, Oğuz Güven, was released from jail on June 14, daily Cumhuriyet has reported.

Main opposition CHP makes call to take to streets to protest MP Berberoğlu’s arrest

The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) made a call on June 14 to take to the streets in Ankara on June 15 to protest the arrest of party deputy Enis Berberoğlu

Turkish opposition politician jailed for 25 years on spying charges

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Reuters in Ankara

Enis Berberoğlu is first CHP lawmaker imprisoned since lifting of immunity last year, in move condemned as ‘intimidation’

Fake News Is Unbelievably Cheap to Produce

MIT Technology Review

For $55,000 you could discredit a journalist; for $200,000 you might instigate a street protest.

Mirror Websites Are Helping Turkish Users Reconnect to Wikipedia

Global Voices Online by Arzu Geybullayeva

The English-language Wikipedia page on January 18, 2012, illustrating its international blackout in opposition to SOPA and PIPA copyright legislation in the US. Created by Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Journalism After Snowden: essays about a free press in a surveillance state

Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

Journalism After Snowden: The Future of the Free Press in the Surveillance Stateis a new essay collection from Columbia Journalism Review Books with contributions from Ed Snowden, Alan Rusbridger (former editor-in-chief of The Guardian); Jill Abramson (former New York Times executive editor; Glenn Greenwald, Steve Coll (Dean of Columbia Graduate School of Journalism), Clay Shirky, Cass Sunstein, and Julia Angwin

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Let’s see: #cyberculture agenda: “Global Entertainment Giants Form Massive Anti-Piracy Coalition

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Global Entertainment Giants Form Massive Anti-Piracy Coalition

TorrentFreak

It’s not unusual for companies within the same area of business to collaborate in order to combat piracy. The studios and labels that form the MPAA and RIAA, for example, have doing just that for decades.

Today, however, an unprecedented number of global content creators and distribution platforms have announced the formation of a brand new coalition to collaboratively fight Internet piracy on a global scale.

Russia is targeting US military personnel with online propaganda

The Social Software Weblog

Russia is going to great lengths to undermine the US military by not just spying on it, but trying to influence its members, according to a report from Politico. Operatives have been friending soldiers and veterans on social media, posting on popular…

The future of Uber’s top execs is in turmoil

The Next Web by Abhimanyu Ghoshal

Although it’s now worth $70 billion, continually expanding across the globe and seeing revenues grow each quarter, Uber has plenty to worry about – and it started with a blog post. You might have heard about this before. Back in February, former engineer Susan Fowler published a post on her personal blog accusing her managers at Uber of sexist behavior in matters big and small. The post led to the company’s launch of an investigation into the claims, and the firing of several employees in connection with the case – as well as the departure of its president Jeff Jones.…

How violence in video games changes with the times

The Social Software Weblog

Violence is the default mechanic in the video-game world. But as video-game graphics become more realistic and virtual reality headsets make games more immersive, developers are taking greater care with the way they portray murder and gore.

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Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Deutsche Welle’s probably wrongly awarded Freedom of Speech Award

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I could not attend this years Global Media Forum organized by Deutsche Welle. It is one of my favorite conferences to attend. I have also been a Jury member at DW’s BOBS Awards for three years.

As far as I could observe, Freedom of Speech Award nomination process was not much transparent and we are not told the reasons for why Mr Ergin was chosen.

I had the opportunity to interview Mr. Ergin for my PhD project at some point and I know he is such an elegant and knowledgeable person. However, I am not sure he has been known to freedom causes and for me he and his newspaper, Hürriyet, represent the old Westernized but nationalist elites of Turkey.

Since the landslide AKP victory on November 1, 2015 Hürriyet leadership opted a pro-Establishement line. Hürriyet is the only Turkish daily I follow regularly and I witness how this daily publishes anti-Kurdish pieces probably produced by Turkey’s intelligence circles. Not only the content but also the headlines are frequently in line with Turkish war establishment’s voices.

Doğan Media Group, owner of Hürriyet, is frequently in conflict with AKP government and some circles think this group is the last bastion of freedom [as Kai Diekmann the publishing editor of Bild said below] but the conflict is a battle between two classes of policy elites who never cared for freedom.

In the last analysis, awarding process seems to have depended on personal networks and some policy concerns in behalf of Deutsche Welle (may be not to anger Turkey more?) and it gravely weakend DW’s attitude towards media freedom causes in Turkey.

I could not attend the conference but my specter haunted it (!)

Hürriyet Editor-in-chief Ergin honored with Freedom of Speech Award

Sedat Ergin, the editor-in-chief of Turkish daily Hürriyet, has received Deutsche Welle’s second annual Freedom of Speech Award

Diekmann: Hürriyet is one of the last remaining, loud voices in Turkey

Kai Diekmann the publishing editor of Bild has said on June 13 that the Hürriyet daily was one of the last remaining, loud voices of Turkey

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#RezaZarrab case.”Zarrab hearing postponed to June 20…

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Zarrab hearing postponed to June 20

The hearing for Reza Zarrab, an Iranian-born Turkish businessman who was arrested in Miami, was postponed to June 20, after Judge Richard Berman accepted U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara’s request

Court demands Zarrab’s ‘other passports’ ahead of bail decision

The New York judge seeing the case against Iranian-Turkish businessman Reza Zarrab has said the court demanded to see all three of the suspect’s passports, as the defendant expects a response to his bail demand in the coming days

US prosecutor asks Zarrab hearing to be postponed

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has requested a postponement in the legal proceedings against Reza Zarrab, an Iranian-born Turkish businessman who was arrested in Miami in March for attempting to evade U.S. sanctions on Iran, due to his heavy work schedule

Lawyer for Gold Trader From Turkey Asks Judge Not to Punish Him for Being Rich

NYT > Turkey by By BENJAMIN WEISER

The lawyer for Reza Zarrab, who has offered to pay for his own detention while awaiting trial, said the inequities in the criminal justice system were not his client’s fault.

Who made Zarrab a Turkish citizen?

It was March 22 this year when I obtained, with certain difficulties, the mugshot of Iranian-origin Turkish businessman Reza Zarrab. He was denied bail in New York on May 26

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These thugs just threatened LGBTi Pride with a public press conference

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The paramilitary Turkish nationalist group Alperenler publicly threatens Pride March that is to happen in Taksim, İstanbul.

This group has been known to be hostile to many subcultures, doubtlessly homophobic but they were never as public as now. They surely rely on changing political conditions in Turkey and existing impunity in hate crime cases.

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New photo from Facebook June 15, 2016 at 11:30AM

Fargo hayranları. Habere bkz: via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

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New photo from Facebook June 15, 2016 at 10:30AM

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Monday, June 15, 2015

New photo from Facebook June 15, 2015 at 05:28PM

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Cyberculture agenda: Greenwald says “The Sunday Times’ Snowden Story is Journalism at its Worst

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The Sunday Times’ Snowden Story is Journalism at its Worst — and Filled with Falsehoods

The Intercept by Glenn Greenwald

(updated below)

Western journalists claim that the big lesson they learned from their key role in selling the Iraq War to the public is that it’s hideous, corrupt and often dangerous journalism to give anonymity to government officials to let them propagandize the public, then uncritically accept those anonymously voiced claims as Truth. But they’ve learned no such lesson. That tactic continues to be the staple of how major US and British media outlets “report,” especially in the national security area. And journalists who read such reports continue to treat self-serving decrees by unnamed, unseen officials – laundered through their media – as gospel, no matter how dubious are the claims or factually false is the reporting.

Report: UK moved spies after Snowden leaks were cracked

AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH)

UK removed a number of spies after Russia and China accessed top-secret raft of documents, newspaper says.

Mega Publishes First Transparency Report

TorrentFreak

mega_logo For the past several years the publication of a so-called ‘Transparency Report’ has become common on large technology focused sites. Reddit, Twitter and evenAmazon produce such documents.

Facebook faces another European privacy challenge from Belgian regulators

The Next Web by Mic Wright

Facebook publicly clashed with Belgium’s Commission for the Protection of Privacy in April, over a disputed report about the social network’s data protection measures. Now another battle is on the horizon.

ICANN Refuses to Play Piracy Police

TorrentFreak

cassette In recent years copyright holders have demanded stricter anti-piracy measures from ISPs, search engines and payment processors, with varying results.

Continuing this trend, various entertainment industry groups are now going after organizations that manage and offer domain name services.

Facebook News Feed Algorithm to Factor In Time Spent on Stories

All Facebook by David Cohen

The latest tweak to Facebook’s News Feed algorithm factors in the amount of time users spend viewing stories.

Software engineers Ansha Yu and Sami Tas announced the change in aNewsroom post Friday, acknowledging that Facebook users don’t necessarily like, comment on or share every post that is important to them.

Wikipedia now uses HTTPS to stop people snooping on your binge learning

The Next Web by Owen Williams

The world’s biggest online encyclopedia finally uses HTTPS to encrypt your connection, so you can learn anything you want without people being able to snoop on your browsing.

Report: Push Messages Result in Greater User Retention

All Facebook by Brandy Shaul

Localytics, an analytics and marketing platform for mobile and Web apps, has today released new research documenting the struggles app marketers face in retaining active users, with a particular focus on user retention (defined as the percentage of users who return to an app 11 or more times) and user abandonment (defined as the percentage of users who use an app only once).

Yes, the U.S. Military Uses Social Media to Target ISIS

Slate Articles by Aki Peritz

It turns out loose lips do sink ships. Last week Air Force Gen. Hawk Carlisleregaled an audience about how the U.S. military used the social media accounts of ISIS members to pinpoint and destroy an ISIS facility. As he told a breakfast meeting in Washington, D.C., some under his command were combing through social media feeds:

A prize for Edward Snowden

Eriksen’s blog by thomashyllanderiksen

But will he be able to travel to Norway? A few months ago, it was as if everybody wanted to be Charlie (Hebdo). This gesture was laudable enough (if not always credible), but who wants to be Edward Snowden? After two years, the world’s most important whistleblower is still in Moscow. His chances of returning […]

The Evolution of Display Advertising: Adapt or Die

All Facebook by Guest

Display and search have been two of the biggest drivers of advertising spend for years, but still advertisers are struggling to achieve their business goals through them.

Study: Female Facebook Users Prefer Yahoo, BuzzFeed, Men Like The Guardian & Wired

All Facebook by Kimberlee Morrison /

A user’s choice of social media activity can provide a host of insights into their personality. With enough data points, it’s possible to learn a lot more. It’s also possible to learn interesting facts about the audiences of publishers on Facebook using page interaction data. A study from Fractl and BuzzStream the connections between gender, education, political leanings, and preferred publications of Facebook users.

A YouTube built for gamers

The Official Google Blog by Google Blogs /

As a kid, I spent hours on the living room couch playing video games with friends, taking turns trying to beat Ganon in “Ocarina of Time” and trading Pokémon until I had all 151. Soon controller passing and Game Boy link cables gave way to network multiplayer and PC LAN parties. Eventually, my living room became a virtual one, with a network of gamers sharing experiences and discoveries.

Twitter is removing the 140 character limit in Direct Messages next month

The Next Web by Natt Garun

In its developer forum, Twitter has confirmed that it will no longer require Direct Messages to be in 140 characters and under.

Review of Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous

media/anthropology by John Postill

Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous. Gabriella Coleman. Brooklyn, NY: Verso Books, 2014. 464 pp.

John Postill
RMIT University
Melbourne, 12 June 2015
forthcoming, American Anthropologist

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