Month: April 2014

Cyberculture agenda: FCC Proposal to end Net Neutrality… How the Russian surveillance state works….Brazilian Congress passes Internet bill of rights…

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FCC Proposal Would End Net Neutrality as We Know It  Mashable! by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai The FCC has announced that it will propose Internet regulations that would allow online content providers to negotiate for preferential treatment from Internet service providers, potentially undermining the principles of net neutrality. Brazilian Congress passes Internet bill of rights Brazil’s Senate unanimously approved groundbreaking legislation … Read more

Literati roundup: A reading list on the sharing economy… 77,000 more Images to Getty Open Content Archive…

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A reading list on the sharing economy open Democracy News Analysis – by Adam Parsons Want more details on the sharing economy and where it might be heading in the future? Check out this comprehensive list of resources, complete with web links. Agyeman, Julian, Duncan McLaren and Adrianne Schaefer-Borrego, Sharing Cities, Friends of the Earth … Read more

Erdoğan’s 24 April statement is surprising but not more than another act of oriental cunning

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Erdoğan seems to have taken a softer stand on the Armenian Genocide issue. As Turkey’s impact on Washington seems to be at a low point, another aggressive statement by Erdoğan would lead to a permanent loss. After all domestic policies he leads, he is definitely not sincere but just a sinister tactician. What surprises audiences is that … Read more

23 April in Turkey. Children?s Day. Anniversary of Turkish Parliament

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Turkish Parliament debates regime on 94th birthday The leaders of all political parties in Parliament gave speeches on the occasion of the April 23 celebrations, during which National Sovereignty and Children?s Day was marked Positives And Negatives On Turkey’s Historic April 23 The Istanbulian by Emre Kızılkaya April 23, 2014, will be remembered as a historic day in … Read more

Eurosphere agenda: Ukraine?s Geneva agreement falters…

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Ukraine?s Geneva agreement falters  EurActiv.com An international agreement to avert wider conflict in Ukraine began to unravel Sunday (21 April), with pro-Moscow gunmen showing no sign of surrendering seized government buildings MAIN FOCUS: Conflict over Geneva peace plan | 22/04/2014 euro|topics Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday accused Kiev of violating the Geneva agreement on de-escalation in Ukraine. … Read more

Erdoğan denies Taksim for Labor Day, desires more polarization before the Presidential Elections

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As a master tactician, he knows that he can only survive with dedicated disciples in a politically polarized environment. Espcially before the Presidential elections in August. Today he announced he will not let Labor Day celebrations in Taksim. Just 4 years ago, AKP was boasting that Labor Day could be celebrated in Taksim thanks to them:   Taksim … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: “Self-directed Crypto 101 online course…Pirate Bay Hits Historic 10 Million Torrent Milestone…

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https://www.crypto101.io/   Self-directed Crypto 101 online course Boing Boing Crypto 101 is a free online course on practical, applied cryptography: ” everything you need to understand complete systems such as SSL/TLS: block ciphers, stream ciphers, hash functions, message authentication codes, public key encryption, key agreement protocols, and signature algorithms.” Pirate Bay Hits Historic 10 Million Torrent … Read more

As Davutoğlu emerges as strong PM candidate, he goes on majestic/or delusional rhetorics: “Turkey’s ruling AKP to live on for many centuries…

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Turkey’s ruling AKP to live on for many centuries: FM Davutoğlu Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu asserts that the ruling AKP is not merely a political party but a ?great historical movement? that will ?continue to exist through the centuries? Foreign Minister Davutoğlu emerges as strong PM candidate Ahmet Davutoğlu has emerged as a strong potential … Read more

Pazartesi akşamları MED 512 dersinde Big Data/Digital Data/Data Mining okumaları…

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Evet daha önce koymalıydım ama bir Erasmus projesi yüzünden birkaç hafta da ara verince… Bu yılki İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Medya ve İletişim Sistemleri Y.Lisans dersi olan “Issues in Cyberculture Studies”ın meselesini Digital Data olarak belirledim. Aşağıda okuma sırasına göre okumaları veriyorum. Her Ptesi santralistanbul’da E4-116’da okumaları tartışıyoruz. Buyrun gelin, siz de katılın. Erasmus öğrencileri olduğu … Read more

SosyalKafa (@SosyalKafa) 3. sezonu da tamamladı…. Netd.com üzerinden Web TV projelerinin haline dair birkaç not…

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En büyük oyuncağım olan Erkan’s Field Diary 10. yılına girerken, başka bir oyuncağım olan SosyalKafa’nın da 3. sezonunu geride bıraktık. Doğan TV’nin bir web televizyonu projesi olan Netd.Com  Haziran 2014 ortalarında kendi platformlarında devam etmemizi önermiş, biz de kabul etmiştik. BJK TV’den olaylı bir şekilde ayrıldıktan sonra, nerede devam edeceğimiz belli değildi. Aslında devam etmesi de zorunlu değildi. … Read more

As Erdoğan becomes the first Turkish PM to sue his own country, 22 in İzmir in court for their Twitter messages during #OccupyGezi

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Gezi döneminde tweet attıkları için haklarında dava açılan arkadaşlar şu an adliye salonunda. #IzmirTwitterCase pic.twitter.com/GWM9rRUZs4 Erdoğan becomes first Turkish PM to sue his own country (Twitter made him do it!) http://bit.ly/1mrXYWq  pic.twitter.com/MqcDgzi005 via @nycjim ‘Even Pulitzer winners would be jailed’ in Turkey with intel law HRW?s executive director Kenneth Roth says the MİT law will harm … Read more

Twitter’s trial with Turkey… as Turkey desires to create her own intranet…

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#NoJoke Meet Turkey’s AKpitter, the alternative Twitter for AKP supporters (no official affiliation with AKP though) pic.twitter.com/pSUungWGpq Turkey mulls leaving World Wide Web, minister says   Communications Minister Lütfi Elvan has said Turkey may leave the World Wide Web (www) to establish its own “ttt” protocol. Elvan also argued an international convention to control the … Read more

Eurosphere agenda: “Website to fact-check EU election campaign claims…

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Website to fact-check EU election campaign claims EurActiv.com by Laurens Cerulus As European politicians hit the campaign trail for the May EU elections, the online project FactcheckEU documents how truthful their campaign speeches really are. Separatists in eastern Ukraine call for Russian ‘peacekeepers’ after deadly gunfight Pro-Kremlin rebels in east Ukraine appealed April 20 for Russian … Read more

#EbileteHayır AKP’s police forces attack fans protesting E-ticket system and Berkin Elvan mourners today in Taksim

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  Police attacks fans who protest e-ticket system. Taksim, Istanbul today.via  A fan strikes back: Several fans detained: In the mean time in Samsun, fans’ protest turns to attacking Samsunspor club premises: via   Turkish police in Taksim today also attacked mourners of Berkin Elvan…

AKP’s social engineering on Football fans: e-ticket system

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And of course e-ticket system is run by Erdoğan’s relatives-in-law….. Police crack down on football fan protest in Taksim over e-ticket system   The new system, dubbed ‘passolig,’ will allow security forces to check fans’ private data çArşı to boycott derby game to protest e-tickets   çArşı?s announcement is the latest supporter outcry against the … Read more