What’s New in Digital and Social Media Research: What makes commenters less civil, and the rise of digital longform Nieman Journalism Lab by John Wihbey Editor’s note: There’s a lot of interesting academic research going on in digital media — but who has time to sift through all those journals and papers? Our friends at Journalist’s Resource, … Read more
Soccer Lessons for Europe’s Economy Project Syndicate by Harold James Though a solution to the euro crisis continues to elude European leaders, the foundations of one are not difficult to discern. In fact, Europe’s recent soccer experience – in the EURO 2012 tournament and this year’s World Cup – provides insight into how to revive Europe’s economy … Read more
Son zamanlarda en özgün içerik üreten blogger’lardan biri dostumuz Serhat Öz. Kendisi yakınlarda kendi alanadını alıp yoluna devam etme kararı aldı. Türkiye dijital alemiyle ilgili güzel tanıtımlar, söyleşiler için http://www.sozyal.co/ Serhat kendini şöyle tanıtmış: SERHAT ÖZ 2009 yılında İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi’nden mezun oldum. Üniversite yıllarından beri çalıştığım otelcilik sektörünü 2010 yılında bırakarak tamamen farklı bir FMCG şirketinde işe başladım. Teknolojiye … Read more
Turkish deputy PM slams women ‘having vacation without husbands’ Bülent Arınç defends his criticism against ‘laughing women’ with a puzzling complaint about ‘pole climbers’ Spam messages reign in Turkish presidential hopefuls’ campaigns Turkey’s presidential hopefuls have continued campaigning by sending text messages to mobile phone users Turks Divided on Erdogan and the Country’s Direction pewglobal.org – Jul 30, 2:55 … Read more
However, he is not a marginal figure. He represents the governing party that’s transforming Turkey… And by the way, he repeatedly makes similar statements, most remain in domestic sphere. But this laughing issue seems to have gone beyond Turkey… Sometimes he functions like a political troll. As the AKP is under pressure in both domestic politics (check … Read more
Ahmet A. Sabancı EFD için Glen Greenwald’un “No Place to Hide”ını değerlendirdi… 2013 Haziran’ında Edward Snowden ve onun NSA’den sızdırdığı belgelerle karşılaştığımızda büyük bir kısmımız gerçekten şok geçirmişti. Kimimiz gerçektne böyle şeylerin sadece komplo teorisi olduğunu düşünüyordu, kimimiz de (tıpkı benim gibi) bunların olduğunu tahmin ediyor ama bu kadarını beklemiyordu. Ancak herkes ortak bir noktada … Read more
This is a place a little bit out of Istanbul. Meeting for Ramadhan Bayram was announced in a pro-ISIS site and meeting happened yesterday. News in Turkish here. Other news from Turkey Turkish PM says he won’t be a traditional president Confident that he will win presidential elections in the first round, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip … Read more
10 Rising Social Networks You Should Explore Had enough of Facebook and Twitter? It may be time to switch up your go-to social network With the daily explosion of startups, there are plenty of new social media tools popping up. These newer platforms could be working on the next big thing, so you’ll want to keep an eye … Read more
Britain is no longer a world power open Democracy News Analysis – by Ben Waite Britain faces a turning point in its foreign policy; it is no longer capable of delivering the ‘interventions’ its leaders crave, while its much vaunted ‘soft power’ seems so soft as to barely make an impact at all. A change of mindset … Read more
For the Ramadan Bayram, Turks are in a state of mobilization which leads to many traffic accidents… News in Turkish VIDEO: Four killed after public bus catches fire in Istanbul There people were killed when a public bus caught fire in Istanbul on July 27. Turkish PM Erdoğan labels opponents as ‘racists’ Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan has labelled … Read more
AKP’s Municipal aesthetics. Report: İstanbul faces ecological disaster due to airport construction Today’s Zaman The Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government’s project to build a third airport in İstanbul, for which 70 ponds in the city are being emptied, Traffic nearly paralyzed outsideİstanbul before Eid ul-Fitr Today’s Zaman Traffic was nearly paralyzed … Read more
As the interrogation period ended, detainee police chiefs wanted to leave the court premises. However, police in uniform prevented them. Here comes the sit-in protest. It looks like AKP-led police & judiciary are not much knowledgeable about a trial process and they missed the deadline for the interrogation period. Of course one should not forget that some of … Read more
Orta Doğu’nun kanayan yarası Gazze’de gene askeri operasyon var, gene siviller öldürülüyor. Uluslararası hiçbir güç bunu engelleyemiyor. Böylesi bir çatışmanın “haklı/haksız” tartışmasına indirgenmeden, bir an önce durdurulması, asgari insanlık görevidir. Akademisyenler olarak, tüm yaşantımızı “şiddet” öğesinin hiçbir zaman kullanılmaması gereken bir ortamda, üniversitede sürdürüyoruz. Şiddet kullanmaya yeltenmeden her şeyin tartışılabileceğini biliyoruz, gösteriyoruz, anlatıyoruz. Gazze’de … Read more
US Jewish group demands PM Erdoğan return award AJC, a prominent Jewish organization in the US, has asked Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan to return a courage award he received in 2004, following his response to the recent Gaza operations US urges fair, transparent probe into detained Turkish police chiefs Washington has again called for ‘fair, transparent and … Read more
Turkey’s Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek today tweeted the message above. Not that American media is in its best situation but Mr. Şimşek has the arrogance to question press freedom in US while his own country’s press freedom can even be compared to US’. Most of the time, authoritarian conservative critics rely on leftist critics or intellectual debates that … Read more