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My piece at @HuffPostBlog “A Few Thoughts on the Decision to Eliminate Evolution From Turkey’s High School Curriculum
A Few Thoughts on the Decision to Eliminate Evolution From Turkey’s High School Curriculum 07/12/2017 By Prof. Erkan Saka The ruling Turkish government rarely uses explicit Islamic reasoning to intervene... Read more
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A few notes on the #GlobalFact4 summit…
A major summit on fact-checking just ended and I am glad to have attended and have witnessed many pioneers of the field. Here are a few notes. They are not... Read more
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#GlobalFact4 takes place in Madrid on July 5-7 at @CampusMadrid and I very glad to be part of it….
I am glad to be attending this intensive conference. I am not a speaker but an observer here, there are so many practitioners all over the world. Doğruluk Payı and... Read more
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I had my first PhD student graduate last week…
Last week we had many thesis defenses in our PhD program in Communication Sciences and MA program in Media and Communication Systems. Some of my students whom I was the... Read more
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17 Mayıs’ta Stockholm İnternet Forumu paralel etkinliği İstanbul’da (#SIF17IST) – SosyalKafa
Efendim İsveç Konsolosluğu’yla başlayan diyalog sonucunda bu önemli olayın bir ayağının da İstanbul’da olmasına karar verdik. SosyalKafa ve Korsan Parti Hareketinden arkadaşların ağırlıklı olarak destek vereceği etkinlik organizasyonuz Bilgi Sosyal... Read more
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Research Project Infographic (Media in Political Transition in the Southern Mediterranean after 2011) released
University of Cambridge – Al Jazeera Media Project has recently finished. I was proudly part of Turkish team. Today an infographic summing up research and its finding released on Al... Read more
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Kitabımız çıktı! “Dijitalleşen Gazetecilik İçin Yeni İş Modelleri” #MedyaEkonomisi
Şimdilik buradan satın alınabiliyor ama muhtemelen yakında diğer kitap sitelerinde de olacak. Yeni Medya Çalışmaları serimizin dördüncü kitabı, medya ekonomisini yakından ilgilendiren bir temaya dayanıyor. Dijitalleşmenin gazeteciliğe etkisi, ülkemizde birçok... Read more
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Wiki projelerimize katkı çağrısı
SeçimTürk 2-3 yıldır çeşitli derslerde üzerinde çalıştığımız Seçim Veritabanı projemizde şu anda Referandum sayfalarına ağırlık vereceğiz. Dijital Kültürler dersimden bir grupla bu hafta çalışmalara başlayacağız. Önceki seçimlerin sayfaları istediğim kadar ansiklopedik olmadı... Read more
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This semester’s syllabus for my “Theories of New Media (COMM 720)” course
I have restructured my doctoral course this semester. Renewed most of the readings with the most up to date works I could find. Selection of topic are of course arbitrary to some... Read more
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Today, Erkan has passed the exam to become an associate professor
After a two-hour session today at Communication School, Marmara University, the jury members seen in this photo approved that I can have title, Associate Professorship. Jury members are appointed by Higher Education... Read more
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This semester’s issue on my “Issues in Cyberculture Studies (MED 512)” course: “Web history and digital archiving”
This semester I have mobilized my classes and academic environment to create a database for Turkey’s internet history. There will be a series of works attached to this project (including a wiki... Read more
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11 Mart’ta Başkanlık Referandumu Paneli (by @tsie2016)
Kaynak: Başkanlık Referandumu Paneli | Başkanlık Referandumu... Read more
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III. Ulusal Yeni Medya Çalışmaları Kongresi 9-10 Mart 2017’de Cer Modern Ankara’da…
III. Ulusal Yeni Medya Çalışmaları Kongresi 9-10 Mart 2017’de Cer Modern Ankara’da… III. Ulusal Yeni Medya Çalışmaları Kongresi, Alternatif Bilişim Derneği tarafından 9-10 Mart 2017 tarihlerinde Ankara’da düzenlenecek. Kongrenin ana... Read more
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My piece at Deutsche Welle: “Turkey′s dream of a national search engine”
On the difference between rhetoric and practice with regard to Turkey’s national search engine project. Turkey’s communications minister Ahmet Arslan recently announced in an interview with a local TV station... Read more
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Our Doha conference news: “University of Cambridge – Al Jazeera Center for Studies Media Project Conference held in Doha, January 7-8, 2017 — Centre for the Study of the International Relations of the Middle East and North Africa
On January 7-8, 2017, the final Conference for the Media in Political Transition in the southern Mediterranean was held in Doha, the Al Jazeera headquarters. The Conference brought together the... Read more
