Erdoğan says Turkey may join Shanghai Five, China and Russia seem to be positive about that…

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President Erdoğan: EU not everything, Turkey may join Shanghai Five

Turkey should not be “fixated” on the idea of joining the European Union and should look at other opportunities, such as the Russia-led Shanghai Pact, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said

China says it would consider Turkey membership of Shanghai bloc

China is willing to consider any application from NATO-member Turkey to join a Russian and Chinese-led security bloc, the Shanghai Pact, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said Nov. 21 after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said his country could join

Fed up with EU, Erdogan says Turkey could join Shanghai bloc

Reuters – Nov 20, 4:21 AM

ISTANBUL President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted on Sunday as saying that Turkey did not need to join the European Union ‘at all costs’ and could instead become part of a security bloc dominated by China, Russia and Central Asian nations. NATO member

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Bilgi İletişim (@ifbilgi) doktora öğrencileri bir sohbet serisi başlatıyor 24 Kasım’da: Coffe Talks’un ilk konuğu, “Web series as fans and critics of Hollywood” başlıklı konferans bildirisi ile Orçun Can. 24 Kasım Perşembe günü Santral Kampüsü E1-101 B’de via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

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Journalism agenda: Fake News drama continues.. Google’s financial initiative on Digital News…

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Digital News Initiative: second funding brings €24M to 124 projects across Europe

The Official Google Blog by Ludovic BlecherHeadDNI Innovation Fund

 

We are thrilled to announce the second round of funding of the Digital News Initiative Innovation Fund, Google’s €150m commitment to spark new thinking and give European news organisations of all sizes the space to try some new things, experiment and innovate in the digital space. Today, project leaders are being notified of funding offers that total €24 million to 124 projects originating from 25 European countries.

Fact-checking and data-driven projects among winners of Google’s Digital News Initiative funding

 Nieman Journalism Lab by Shan Wang

Google continues to make nice with European publishers, part two: The search giant announced Thursday it is supporting 124 new media projects across 25 European countries with €24 million as part of its Digital News Initiative Innovation Fund. Google intends to dole out €150 million over three years, and has already spread €27 million across 128 projects back in February (wewrote abouta numberof them).

Facebook to Crack Down on Fake News – The Implications of Zuckerberg’s Plan

Social Media Today by Andrew Hutchinson

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has outlined their plan to tackle fake news on the site.

7 signs the news you’re sharing is fake

Mashable! by Lance Ulanoff

Fake news is like the living dead of new media. It is unkillable.

Fake news has gotten so bad Obama had to weigh in

 Mashable! by Marissa Wenzke

The problem of fake news on social media platforms like Facebook misinforming Americans was seriously addressed by none other than President Barack Obama Thursday.

Four students fixed Facebook’s fake news problem in 36 hours

The Next Web by Bryan Clark

Facebook’s fake news problem is all the rage these days. After raising hell about Facebook’s role in the recent election — and a misleading response from CEO Mark Zuckerberg — we’re really back at square one. It’s a problem, we all know it’s a problem (save Zuckerberg), and at this point we’re still struggling for a solution — although we do have some suggestions. According to The Washington Post, four students — Anant Goel, Nabinta De, Qinglin Chen, and Mark Craft — may have solved the problem. At a hackathon at Princeton University this week, students were given the challenge of solving…

Escape the echo chamber: How to fix your Facebook News Feed

 Mashable! by Patrick Kulp

For all its talk of a more connected world, Facebook has a tendency to silo us—its users—into feedback loops, those spheres of information where we’re rarely subjected to views that differ from our own.

Mark Zuckerberg explains how Facebook is fighting fake news

 The Social Software Weblog

Ever since the end of the presidential election, the spread of rumors, misinformation and outright fake news on social media has been in the spotlight. With even President Obama speaking out about social media’s role in pushing propaganda, and some

How to Hold Algorithms Accountable

MIT Technology Review

Algorithmic systems have a way of making mistakes or leading to undesired consequences. Here are five principles to help technologists deal with that.

Fake News is a Problem on Facebook, but the Echo Chamber Effect is More Significant

Social Media Today by Andrew Hutchinson

There’s no doubt Facebook had some influence in the Presidential Election result – but what that influence was, and how we fix it, is a more challenging concern.

Zuckerberg’s problem: he makes money from fake news

 Memex 1.1

This morning’s Observer column:

Zuckerberg says that he doesn’t want fake news on Facebook, but it turns out that getting rid of it is very difficult because “identifying the ‘truth’ is complicated”. Philosophers worldwide will agree with that proposition. But you don’t need to have a Nobel prize to check whether the pope did indeed endorse Trump or whether Clinton conducted the supposed purchases of arms or a Maldives house.

Fake stories outperformed real political news over the election’s final months

The Next Web by Bryan Clark

As the election season came to an end the fake news sources were just getting started. During the final three months of the US Presidential campaign, viral fake news sites crushed the real thing in terms of Facebook engagement. According to reporting from BuzzFeed News, the 20 top-performing fake election stories — those coming from hoax sites and hyperpartisan blogs — generated more than 8.7-million engagements.

Facebook might not detect fake news, but this Chrome extension will

Mashable! by Emma Hinchliffe

As Facebook continues to roil over the idea that fake news on the social network could have had any effect on the U.S. presidential election, one Chrome extension is stepping in.

Chrome has at least two new extensions built to fight fake news

 The Social Software Weblog

After serious anxieties that fake news proliferated on social media unchecked during the election cycle, internet titans have stepped up, with Google and Facebook both blocking ad money from going to hoax story sites. But to protect the people,

This Chrome extension will warn you when you visit a fake news site

Mashable! by Emma Hinchliffe

A week after the presidential election, the fight against fake news is finally ramping up.

The Real Problem Behind the Fake News

 Slate Articles by Will Oremus

In the wake of Donald Trump’s election as president, Facebook has taken justifiable heat for its role in spreading misinformation and propaganda about the candidates. In particular, its news feed algorithm fueled a cottage industry of fake and intentionally misleading “news” that skewed heavily anti–Hillary Clinton and pro-Trump, according to a BuzzFeed analysis. These falsehoods attracted far more user engagement, on average, than true stories from the same outlets and drowned out earnest attempts by dedicated fact-checking sites such as Snopes to debunk them

Facebookers defy Zuckerberg, form fake news “task force”

Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

Days after Mark Zuckerberg called the idea that Facebook — and specifically, the fake news circulated on Facebook

“Post-truth” is the Oxford Dictionaries word of the year

 Boing Boing by David Pescovitz

Also in the running was “coulrophobia,” the fear of clowns, and “hygge,” a Danish concept meaning “a quality of cosiness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a feeling of contentment or well-being.” From The Guardian:

Google funds more than 100 European projects in second round of Digital News Initiative

 Journalism.co.uk

The second round of funding focused on collaborative projects, alongside the programme’s other criteria of impact and innovation

Facebook Alone Didn’t Create Trump—The Click Economy Did

Wired Top Stories by Issie Lapowsky

We may not know exactly how rich our soon-to-be president actually is. But in an economy where clicks are currency, Trump is King Midas.

NBC News is experimenting with live virtual reality to cover news events

Journalism.co.uk

With live VR, the news organisation aims to give audiences the chance to interact with its anchors in a more intimate way

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Anthro roundup: “Anthropological reflections on space colonization”

New photo from Facebook November 21, 2015 at 07:45PM

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Journalism agenda: Pew Report on Countries, press freedom and national security…

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Countries differ in support for press freedom, especially for reporting on national security

11 A new Pew report finds that beliefs in the freedom of the press vary substantially by country, with support for both free speech and a free press “contingent on the topic.” In general, while “large majorities across the globe” believe that the people should be able to criticize the government publicly, there’s less consensus on “things that are offensive either to minorities or religious groups…that is sexually explicit or that calls for violent protests.”

CNN Punished Its Own Journalist for Fulfilling a Core Duty of Journalism

 The Intercept by Glenn Greenwald

CNN yesterday suspended its global affairs correspondent, Elise Labott, for two weeks for the crime of posting a tweet critical of the House vote to ban Syrian refugees. Whether by compulsion or choice, she then groveled in apology. This is the original tweet along with her subsequent expression of repentance:

Everyone, It was wrong of me to editorialize. My tweet was inappropriate and disrespectful. I sincerely apologize.

— Elise Labott (@eliselabottcnn) November 20, 2015

What are the best practices for crowdsourcing the reporting process?

Nieman Journalism Lab by Joseph Lichterman

In early 2013, New York Times health reporter Elisabeth Rosenthal wrote astory on the Times’ Well blog about the challenges of getting a quote for how much a hip replacement surgery would cost.

What Does A CNN Reporter Have To Tweet To Get Suspended?

huffingtonpost.com – Michael Calderone

NEW YORK — CNN global affairs correspondent Elise Labott tweeted on Monday morning that President Barack Obama, speaking at the G-20 summit in Turkey, was ‘wining [sic] about criticism instead of presenting ideas’ for how to deal with the…

The Christian Science Monitor built a separate site just for coverage of the Paris climate talks

Nieman Journalism Lab by Shan Wang

Paris is currently in the global limelight because of the terrorist attacks last Friday, but at the end of the month delegates from around the world will converge there for the United Nations Climate Change Conference. News organizations around the world are sending reporters to the summit, known as COP21, and plotting how to cover the talks efficiently and movingly, when the meat of the event involves people arguing in conference rooms.

Newsonomics: Can you get readers to pay a dollar a day for digital news?

 Nieman Journalism Lab by Ken Doctor

Is local news worth a dollar a day?

That’s the fascinating question The Boston Globe is now posing to its local readers. It’s a query that should resonate among the press around North America and Europe as well.

How one blog helped spark The New York Times’ digital evolution

 Nieman Journalism Lab by Joseph Lichterman

Last month, The New York Times announced that it was formally shutting down City Room, the metro blog that it had been running since 2007. Even before its closure, it had been reduced in recent years to just a repository for acoupleongoing features — a far cry from the lively, webby blog it had once been.

Podcasting in 2015 feels a lot like blogging circa 2004: exciting, evolving, and trouble for incumbents

 Nieman Journalism Lab by Joshua Benton

So one move is in the direction of quality. Alex Blumberg, the public radio reporter who left to start Gimlet Media in 2014, describes what he’s trying to build as the “HBO of podcasting.” “We take more time, we spend more money, and we try to hone and craft more than 95 percent of the podcasts out there,” he said earlier this year. “I think podcasting still has an association with something that two dudes make in their basement. There’s a Wayne’s World connotation to it. But I think of them as shows: sleek, produced, where you have people who are good at it doing it.”

 

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Thanks God, there will not be a “meteorite tax”

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Finance minister says ‘no’ to meteorite tax in Turkey’s east

After discussions both on traditional and social media, including a Twitter poll by the country’s finance minister and an official investigation, it has been decided villagers in the eastern province of Bingöl who found and sold meteorite pieces at inflated prices did not need to pay taxes for this sort of income

Man to do 1,812-hours of cleaning in Istanbul mosque as punishment

A local court has ordered a Turkish man, who has been on trial on the charge of “negligence” in a Syrian worker’s death in a landslide at a construction site, will spend 1,812 hours cleaning a mosque

TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE : 17 Trans Women Killed in Turkey in Last 4.5 Years

 Bianet :: English

1,933 trans homicides committed in total in 64 countries as of 2008, Turkey ranks first in Europe.

AKP is Turkey’s only mainstream party, all others ‘marginal’: PM Davutoğlu

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is the only political party representing the whole of Turkey, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has stated, claiming that all other parties were “marginalized” in the Nov. 1 general election

Leyla Zana Begins Parliamentary Oath in Kurdish

 Bianet :: English

Oath of Leyla Zana who started her speech saying “Aşiti” in oath-taking ceremony in the Assembly hasn’t been accepted.

Speaker declares Zana’s oath null and void due to ‘Turkish nation’ rewording

Speaker of the Turkish parliament has declared an oath taken by a leading Kurdish politician null and void due to the latter’s rewording of the oath

Beşiktaş Municipality changes street name to ‘peace’ in Turkish and Kurdish

Istanbul’s Beşiktaş Municipality has change the name of a street in the district to “Barış-Aşiti,” meaning “peace” in Turkish and Kurdish. The move comes as an expression of solidarity with the municipality in the violence-hit southeastern province of Hakkari

Questions raised over Babacan’s role in new cabinet after G-20 no-show

Questions have arisen over the possible future cabinet role of former Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan, after he failed to attend the G-20 Summit in Antalya

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