Cyberculture agenda: Will be hard to find a cooler President: “Joi Ito interviews Barack Obama for Wired: machine learning, neurodiversity, basic research and Star Trek

Joi Ito interviews Barack Obama for Wired: machine learning, neurodiversity, basic research and Star Trek Boing Boing Joi Ito (previously) — director of MIT Media Lab, former Creative Commons chief, investor, entrepreneur, and happy mutant — interviewed Barack Obama for a special, Obama-edited issue of Wired   Google Warns More Than a Dozen Russian Journalists and Activists … Read more

Eurosphere agenda: Czarny Protest…Brexit event.. Hungary and its crackdown on opposition press…

Czarny Protest: how Polish women took to the streets open Democracy News Analysis – by Kasia Narkowicz After two decades of feminist pressure, the people took to the streets. But why now? Polish women protest against a legislative proposal for a total ban on abortion in Poland. PAimages/Geert Vanden Wijngaert. All rights reserved. Joy and despair in … Read more

Erdoğan insisted on the Bashiqa base, “Turkey-backed Syrian rebel forces attack ISIL’s Dabiq…

Bashiqa base in northern Iraq will remain: President Erdoğan President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Oct. 15 that Turkey’s presence in the Bashiqa military base in northern Iraq will remain, amid the ongoing row with Baghdad, which has demanded the immediate withdrawal of the Turkish military from the camp Turkey-backed Syrian rebel forces attack ISIL’s Dabiq Turkey-backed … Read more

Life in Turkey (roundup): “Turkey ranks 55th ‘best place to be a girl’”

Turkey ranks 55th ‘best place to be a girl’ Turkey has ranked 55th out of 144 countries in a new study on the well-being of girls in 144 countries around the world, with lack of women’s public representation being the most pressing issue the country faces, followed by child marriage. INTERVIEW: Özge Samancı on ‘Dare to Disappoint: … Read more

Journalism agenda: Fact-checking at Google News…

Google will now help you fact-check Trump (and other lies) The Next Web by Napier Lopez Google appears to be just as fed up with the constant lies during the presidential election as we are, so now it’s helping you set the facts straight. The company today introduced a new feature that will tag and help … Read more

There Lira in free fall: 1 USD: 3.10 TL

Turkish Lira hits record low against dollar on political worries, Fed’s rate hike signals The Turkish Lira hit a record low against the dollar on Oct. 13 over fears that political uncertainty could be triggered by a fresh government move to push through legislation introducing an executive presidential system BP refutes claims about exiting Turkish market BP … Read more

An Open Democracy article on “Turkey’s largest environmental legal case” Artvin- Cerattepe

Turkey’s largest environmental legal case open Democracy News Analysis – by Defne Gonenc In addition to the incompetence of the Turkish legal system, this case illustrates how twenty first century power politics is being played out in the arena of environmental projects. Attacks against protesters with police tear gas,Artvin Cerattepe and Genya mine, February 2016.EJAtlas. All … Read more

Journalism agenda: New PEW research- Younger adults prefer to get their news in text, not video,

Younger adults prefer to get their news in text, not video, according to new data from Pew Research Nieman Journalism Lab by Ricardo Bilton Digital publishers may be pouring time and energy into cranking up their video operations, but for a lot of their potential viewers, text is still the way to go. New data from … Read more

“Open Anthropology” presents: “An Anthropological Perspective on Elections and Politics”

  To the list of reasons why the 2016 presidential contest in the United States has been especially notable and newsworthy, we might add the number of superlatives surrounding it. Headlines refer to the two leading contenders—Hillary Rodham Clinton and Donald J. Trump—as the “least trusted” and “most unfavorable candidates ever.” Despite the unpopularity of the … Read more

Bashiqa camp crisis. Erdogan, whose soldiers remain in Iraqi soil, rejects moving them and tells Iraq PM to ‘know his limits’

Backed by Putin, Turkey seems to have started a new crisis that will weaken relations with US. I am not sure too much reliance on Russia is a good thing. OR this is just another stunt for the domestic audiences… Erdogan tells Iraq PM to ‘know his limits’, says will not get orders on Bashiqa … Read more

Lindsay Lohan’s PR work for Turkish government continued…

After being photographed next to a man who was leading an attack against Hürriyet daily, she is photographed with Hilal Kaplan (on the right), a columnist and a leading figure with her husband, in AKP propaganda machine… I wonder how much it costed, all this affair… Lindsay Lohan visits refugee camp in Turkey’s southeast Hollywood star Lindsay … Read more

Buddies again. Putin meets Erdoğan in Istanbul Energy Summit…

Putin in Turkey to push energy deals  EurActiv.com by Georgi Gotev Russian President Vladimir Putin visits Turkey today (10 October) for talks with counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, pushing forward ambitious joint energy projects as the two sides try to overcome a crisis in ties. Three Turkish diplomats seeking asylum in Germany after coup attempt: Report At least … Read more

Journalism agenda: https://syhacked.com/ [newsgame takes players inside the cyber conflict in Syria]

https://twitter.com/banuguven/status/783323060069867520?s=03 How the Refugee Journalism Project helps exiled reporters restart their careers in the UK  Journalism.co.uk The initiative matches journalists in exile with UK-based reporters to give them a foot in the door in the British media industry Al Jazeera’s latest newsgame takes players inside the cyber conflict in Syria Journalism.co.uk Senior Al Jazeera correspondent Juliana Ruhfus … Read more

ÖYP’lilerle ilgili eposta adresime gelen bir açıklama: “ÖYP’Lİ ASİSTANLAR DOKTORALI İŞSİZ OLACAK”

ÖYP’Lİ ASİSTANLAR DOKTORALI İŞSİZ OLACAK Sayıları 15 bin’i bulan ÖYP’li (Öğretim Üyesi Yetiştirme Programı) araştırma görevlilerinin iş güvenliği 674 sayılı KHK ile ortadan kaldırıldı. Araştırma görevlilerinin eğitimlerini tamamladıklarında görevlerine devam etmelerini sağlayan 33/a maddesi, eğitim sonunda işten atılmalarına neden olan güvencesiz 50/d kadrolara dönüştürüldü. ÖYP Akademide Torpili Önlemek İçin Kurulmuştu Öğretim Üyesi Yetiştirme Programı akademik … Read more

Turkey’s Saturday Night Crackdown on Internet: Google Drive, Dropbox banned…

…due to the fact that Redhack, a Turkey based hacker group, released Erdoğan’s son-in-law’s (Berat Albayrak) hacked emails… It is a torrent file in fact. Not much can be done to prevent people reading the stuff. But you know, authorities are not always rational… This will just cause more pain for users and more revenues … Read more