Konuşmacı: Özlem Öz (Google Türkiye Kurumsal İletişim Müdürü) Tarih: 27 Kasım 2013, Çarşamba Saat: 18.15-19.00 Yer: santralistanbul Kampüsü, E4-305 ***************** 29 Kasım 2013 Cuma günü ise İDO genel müdürü Ahmet Paksoy Ustalarla Buluşma adlı dersimize konuk olacak. Ders saat 19’da başlıyor. Yer yine Santral kampüsünde E4 binasında 305 nolu salonda. İki etkinlik de herkese açıktır.
http://www.ozgurwebgunleri.org.tr/2013/ Özgür Web Teknolojileri Günleri 2013, 22-23 Kasım’da İstanbul Yeditepe Üniversitesi’nde. Etkinliği, Linux Kullanıcıları Derneği ve Yeditepe Üniversitesi Bilgisayar Topluluğu beraber düzenliyor. Özgür Yazılım A.Ş. ve Gittigidiyor’un sponsorluğundaki etkinlik, Türkiye‘de web teknolojileri ve özgür yazılımla ilgilenenleri buluşturacak. Etkinlikte “Ölçeklenebilirlik” ana teması etrafında 2 gün boyunca 3 paralel salonda 30’un üzerinde konuşmacı; seminerler, uygulamalı seminerler ve … Read more
Just heard that the latest issue of Cultural Anthropology has a special focus: Gezi Protests. That will definitely be a good scholarly and ethnographic source on the subject. But check out the contents below. Not one specific article you will find on new media usage, which was obviously an essential part of Protests. Unfortunately, (mass) … Read more
Nobel Prize-winning British author Doris Lessing dies aged 94 British author Doris Lessing, whose powerful feminist and anti-colonial writing won her the Nobel Literature Prize, died at the age of 94 ********************* Turkish epitaph: Christopher de Bellaigue on Orhan Pamuk Christopher de Bellaigue is struck by the vulgar, Stepford Wives vision that has replaced the … Read more
KONFERANS: TOPLUMSAL EYLEM RETORİĞİ 13-14 Kasım 2013/ İlef 13 Kasım 2013/Çarşamba ATK Sanatevi 10.30-12.00 Açılış ve Açılış Bildirisi Açılış Konuşması Ruken Öztürk Açılış Bildirisi Social Movements and the Rhetoric of Protest Herbert W. Simons 12.00-13.00 Öğle Yemeği 13.00-14.30 Oturum Oturum Başkanı Eser Köker Estetik Bir Deneyim Olarak Toplumsal Eylem: … Read more
You can have a look at the anniversary roundup curated by Erkan here.
What Makes a Sex Shop Halal? Responding to apparent pent-up demand for tacky bachelorette parties, the 38-year old Turkish entrepreneur Haluk Murat Demirel has opened the country’s first halal (permissible in Islam) sex shop online. It’s not the first such enterprise in the world — successful predecessors can be found in such varied locales … Read more
New Zealand Author Eleanor Catton Wins the 2013 Man Booker Prize 28 year old Eleanor Catton becomes the youngest winner of the Man Booker Prize. She won for her novel, The Luminaries. Neil Gaiman explains the worth and value of libraries In an absolutely stirring, smashing speech delivered as the Reading Agency annual lecture, Neil … Read more
Clickthrough Anthropology Blogs ? October 2013 I keep all the Anthropology Blogs 2013 in a big Feedlysubscription. Got behind and scrolled through over 400 articles in the last few weeks. These are the things that caught my interest, recent anthropology blog-posts that seemed worth a clickthrough. I?ve tried to do some rough groupings … Read more
inet-tr?13 etkin katilim cagrisi İnet-tr?13 9-11 ralık 2013 tarihleri arasında İstanbul Üniversitesin?de? 18. Türkiye?de İnternet Konferansı, inet-tr?13, bu yıl 9-11 Aralık 2013 tarihlerinde İstanbul Üniversitesi Merkez Kampusundaki Kongre Merkezinde yapılacaktır. Bilindiği gibi, inet-tr, Türkiye?de Internet ile ilgili grupları biraraya getirerek İnternet?i tüm boyutlarıyla tanıtmak, gelistirmek, tartışmak, İnternet teknolojileri aracılığı ile toplumsal verimliliği artırmak ve toplumun … Read more
Puzzling Peer Reviews As open-access journals search for a review process that preserves diversity and quality, a sting operation exploits the weaknesses of lax quality control. The Incredible Predictive Power of Tom Clancy’s Novels Before Tom Clancy became an international publishing phenomenon, he was just another insurance salesman, working out of Baltimore and dreaming … Read more
Breastfeeding in public: what is and what is not ?appropriate? I just read about a discrimination case in the San Diego area in which author/educator Rachel Rainbolt was told by her child?s homeschool teacher that breastfeeding was ?inappropriate? behavior during weekly meetings. Read more about this case on her site. First of all, this sort … Read more
Japan’s Murakami favourite for Nobel prize Japanese literary superstar Haruki Murakami is favourite for this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, betting odds showed Medical terminology named after Nazis Surprisingly, there are a good half-dozen medical eponyms that come from Nazi doctors who performed experiments on unwilling human subjects or used bodies of executed prisoners in … Read more
2013 Man Booker Prize Shortlist Announced The 2013 Man Booker Prize shortlist has been announced. The shortlist was announced by Chair of Judges Robert Macfarlane. The longlist of 13 books was whittled down to the following six books: We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo (Chatto & Windus) The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (Granta) Harvest … Read more
Bu yıl yapılacak Özgür Web Günleri’nin temasını “Web Teknolojilerinde Ölçeklenebilirlik” olarak belirlendi. Şurada etkin katılım çağrısı var: http://ozgurwebgunleri.org.tr/2013/etkin-katilim-cagrisi/ Teknik konularda öneriler yapılabileceği gibi temaya uygun başka öneriler de yapılabilir. 22 – 23 Kasım tarihlerini şimdiden takvimimize yerleştirelim. Oldukça yararlı oturumlar yapılacak.