Cyberculture agenda: Twitter Stock Drops…Blogs in Russia?s Media Ecology…

  Twitter Stock Drops to New Low as User Growth Disappoints Wall Street   Here we go again.   Twitter Tops 250 Million Users, But Stock Tanks 10% Mashable! by Seth Fiegerman Twitter beat earnings and revenue estimates for the first quarter, but users numbers came in at the low end of Wall Street estimates … Read more

Dispatches: Turkish minister’s advice to families; Venice Commission head’s concern; Erdoğan’s logic on genocide…

Turkish minister advises families to teach children to scream to prevent murders The recent murders of children around Turkey has prompted the family minister to take new steps to protect their offspring Gülen under probe as Turkish PM increases pressure US-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen is being investigated for attempting to prevent the government from functioning CHP … Read more

Turkish State invades Taksim Square with 40K police to deny Labor Day celebrations…

Many major unions and left wing organizations are determined to celebrate May Day in Taksim, as it has been the case for decades, but I believe it is hard to challenge Erdoğan’s determination to close Taksim for celebrations. Against a brute state force, there will be clashes around but it is hard to imageine activists … Read more

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