Anthropology agenda: “Anthropology as Theoretical Storytelling

Anthropology as Theoretical Storytelling Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog by Carole McGranahan [This essay is part of the Fall 2015 Savage Minds Writers’ Workshop series.] Anthropologists are storytellers. We tell stories: other’s stories, our own stories, stories about other’s stories. But when I think about anthropology and storytelling, I think … Read more

For the record; “8 funny responses to the ‘thrones’ that welcomed Merkel in Istanbul…

8 funny responses to the ‘thrones’ that welcomed Merkel in Istanbul President Erdoğan hosted German Chancellor Merkel on Oct. 18 to discuss financial aid to Syrian refugees. But the gaudy throne-like armchairs in the hall have created a social media storm Is Europe’s ‘refugee deal’ giving in to blackmail by Turkey?  EurActiv.com Two million Syrian refugees are … Read more

Yesterday: 90% Traffic density… Istanbul news roundup…

News in Turkish here **************** Black Week Festival opens at Pera Palace Jumeriah Istanbul’s Pera Palace Hotel Jumeirah is hosting the “Black Week” event in honor of the 125th anniversary of the birth of popular novelist Agatha Christie’s birth, featuring a week of crime fiction-themed events. President Erdogan: The Bully of Istanbul Algemeiner Almost everyone at … Read more

EFD Haftanın Web Projesi: “İhtiyaç Haritası” (@ihtiyacharitasi)

http://ihtiyacharitasi.org/ Hakkımızda Nerede yaşarsak yaşayalım, yaşadığımızın yerin ihtiyaçlarını en iyi biz yaşayanlar biliriz. Bu ihtiyaçların  karşılanması ise toplumsal sorumluluk bilinci ile hem yurttaşlar olarak bizlerin hem de ilgili kurumların görevidir. İhtiyacharitasi.org farklı konulardaki ihtiyaçların ihtiyaç sahipleri ile ihtiyacı karşılamak isteyen kişiler ve kurumların buluştuğu online bir platformdur. İhtiyaçların karşılanmasının yanı sıra farklı konularda destek sahibi … Read more

Eurosphere agenda: “populism a ‘cancer’ spreading across Europe, says EPP leaders….

EPP leaders: populism a ‘cancer’ spreading across Europe EurActiv.com Leaders from the European Peoples Party (EPP) meeting in Madrid on Thursday (22 October) warned that populism was a “disease” spreading “like a cancer” in the EU. At least 6,000 refugees stranded in freezing rain at Croatia’s border Mashable! by Megan Specia Thousands of people spent the night stranded in the cold … Read more

Literati roundup: A new book on Participatory culture… “Sci-Fi’s Hugo Awards and the Battle for Pop Culture’s Soul….

New book: Participatory Culture in a Networked Era by Henry Jenkins, Mimi Ito, and me!  apophenia In 2012, Henry Jenkins approached Mimi Ito and I with a crazy idea that he’d gotten from talking to the folks at Polity. Would we like to sit down and talk through our research and use that as the basis … Read more

Ayşe Özer: TOROSUN TORPİDO GÖZÜ

TOROSUN TORPİDO GÖZÜ   Buz gibi bir Ankara sabahıydı. Abdi İpekçi Parkının içinde, göğe uzanan o koca avucun yanı başındaki havuzda bulunan sığ su yer yer donmuştu. Buz tabakasının orta yerine atıldı Tekel işçileri. Bedenleriyle parçaladılar Ankara ayazını. Mevzu derindi, ancak devlet baba yüzme bilmiyordu. Oturduğu koltukta ayağı yerden aniden kesilince muktedirin hemen boğulma korkusu … Read more

Today’s rape of justice: Turkish court convicts 244 protesters over #OccupyGezi protests…

Turkish court convicts 244 protesters over Gezi Park protests A local court in Istanbul has sentenced 244 participants in the 2013 Gezi protests to jail time for a range of crimes, including “polluting a mosque.” Mostly Economic Pledges Take Part on Media Bianet :: English According to MTM’s survey, among political parties’ promises pension pledge has taken … Read more

Everyday we are insulting- 15 year old kid and a massive online community leader @srkninci detained and released today for insulting Erdoğan…

Turkish teen released after detention for ‘insulting’ Erdoğan due to age A schoolboy, initially thought to be 15, was detained by police in the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri for allegedly “insulting” President Erdoğan before being released when the court determined he was in fact 14. Erdoğan’a hakarette bugün (2): İnci Sözlük yazarı gözaltına alındı Diken by … Read more

Eurosphere agenda: “Sweden school sword attack… “The end of free movement to and from Europe?…

One dead in Sweden school sword attack  BBC News | Europe | World Edition Swedish police shoot a masked man who killed a teacher and injured at least two students with a sword in the western town of Trollhattan. Many most affected by the EU referendum will have no vote Ideas on Europe by Jon Danzig The end … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: CIA Director John Brennan emails in Wikileaks… Open Access Week 2015…

CIA Director John Brennan emails WikiLeaks Today, 21 October 2015 and over the coming days WikiLeaks is releasing documents from one of CIA chief John Brennan’s non-government email accounts. Brennan used the account occasionally for several intelligence related projects. John Brennan WikiLeaks Is Publishing the CIA Director’s Hacked Emails  Wired Top Stories by Andy Greenberg Days … Read more

Literati roundup: after all Google’s scan of millions of books has been declared legal…”Digital Islamic Humanities Project…

Google’s audacious project that scanned millions of books has been declared legal The Next Web by Owen Williams Google Books, a project that involved scanning tens of millions of books to make them available online, was met with resistance from authors around the world. A group of authors sued Google in 2008 claiming that the project violated copyright and … Read more

Emre Sevimbige (@Fable_Edgar) yeni yazısıyla: “Kalbini Nasırlaştırma Fabrikası”

Kalbini Nasırlaştırma Fabrikası Küçükken duyduğunuz klişeleri unutun! Duygusal bir insan olmak, sadece lanettir! Yok efendim duygusalmış, yok merhametliymiş, yok iyi huyluymuş… Bunların hepsi eksi puandan başka hiç bir şey değil efendim. Sadece rezil olduğunu kabullenmek gibi bir şey. İş yaşamında duygulara yer yok mesela. Çok profesyonel olacaksın! 5 yılını bile geçirsen evin gibi gördüğün şirketinde, … Read more

As Davutoğlu implies extrajudicial killings for Kurds, VICE reporter (#FreeRasool) and 19 Kurdish Co-Mayors still captive in Turkish prisons…

Int’l press freedom coalition says pressure on media ‘severely escalated’ after June 7 polls A coalition of international free expression groups has said that pressure on journalists operating in Turkey has “severely escalated” since the parliamentary elections on June 7 White Toros* Polemics  Bianet :: English Prime Minister Davutoğlu upon the reactions against his words in Van … Read more

For the record, last weekend Turkey shot down a drone with in a majestic operation… just that that drone might be a toy…

Turkey’s deputy prime minister confirms drone was shot down – video World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk Numan Kurtulmuş, the deputy prime minister of Turkey, confirms on Friday that the country’s military shot down an unidentified aircraft after it violated Turkish airspace. Kurtulmuş says the aircraft, reported to be a drone, was given several warnings which went … Read more