Academia news

Cyberculture roundup: Pew report on Anonymity, Privacy, and Security Online, Location-Based Services… FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack..

by

Can Twitter Go Public and Still Be a Champion of Free Speech? With Twitter set to make its debut on American stock exchanges, a critical question looms: Can toppling dictators also be good business? Anonymity, Privacy, and Security Online A new survey finds that most internet users would like to be anonymous online, but many … Read more

A literati roundup: The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy Online: New Archive Will Present 90 Volumes for Free BUT in Russian

by

Google is working with Harvard and MIT?s edX platform to help anyone create online courses A little over a year since Harvard and MIT joined forces to launch the not-for-profit online learning venture edX, Google has announced that it?s to start working with edX to build an open MOOC (massive open online course) platform, hosted … Read more

“Anthropology Co-Citation Graph… Anthro roundup…

by

Anthropology Co-Citation Graph Recently Kieran Healy posted a link on Twitter to a co-citation graph he?d made to try to understand what philosophers ?have been talking about for the last two decades?? He also posted a nice poster he made from this data [PDF]. I reposted these and mentioned that it would be great to … Read more

Literati roundup: Charles Bukowski?s FBI File…Isaac Asimov?s 1964 Predictions..The performative origins of animation

by

Read 113 Pages of Charles Bukowski?s FBI File From 1968 Click image for a larger version   Downgrading Elite Colleges Prestigious liberal arts colleges are facing financial pressures, according to recent credit ratings. Isaac Asimov?s 1964 Predictions About What the World Will Look 50 Years Later ? in 2014When New York City hosted The World?s … Read more

Amme hizmetlerine devam: Akademisyenler için birkaç çevrimiçi araç?

by

Akademisyenler için birkaç çevrimiçi araç?  Twitter araçlarından sonra yeni bir araç listesiyle geldik:  Aslına her araç akademisyenlerin de işine yarayabilir. Yine de özellikle yarayabileceğini düşündüğüm birkaç şeyi sıralayayım. Çevrimiçi akademik kimliğinizi inşa ederken, bir yayın yaptığınızda naparsınız? Öncelikle kendinize ait sitenizi güncelleyin: http://erkansaka.net/about-2/erkans-cv Sonra hızla büyüyen akademik ağ olan Academia.edu’da güncelleme yapın. Hatta telif hakkına … Read more

an interview with David Harvey… Academies of hatred… A literati roundup…

by

Preoccupying: an interview with David Harvey David Harvey highlights the importance of challenging the state and addresses the everchanging ideal of the city and the social groups that sustain and contest it. Academies of hatred A series of public events in Wroc?aw, Poland?s European Capital of Culture in 2016, have been disrupted by radicals. Those … Read more

Erkan’ın da makalesinin olduğu İletişim ve Diplomasi dergisi çıktı…

by

İLETİŞİM VE DİPLOMASI DERGİSİ YENİ MEDYA ÖZEL SAYISI ÇIKTI iLETİŞİM VE DİPLOMASİ adlı akademik hakemli derginin ?Yeni Medya? Özel Sayısı çıktı. İçindekileri aşağıda görebilirsiniz.       Editörün Notu? 5           İletişim ve Diplomasi?den? Yeni Medya ve Kamu Diplomasisi Aktörü Olarak BYEGM 31         Günseli BAYRAKTUTAN ? Mutlu BİNARK ? Tuğrul ÇOMU ? Gözde İSLAMOĞLU ? Burak DOĞU ? Aslı Telli AYDEMİR – Web 1.0?dan Web 2.0?a Barış ve … Read more

“The 100 Best Sci-Fi Stories by Women Writers… Chomsky vs. Zizek… A literati roundup

by

The 100 Best Sci-Fi Stories by Women Writers (Read 20 for Free Online) Since 2009, the organization VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts has sought to bring balance to the representation of female authors in the literary world. As revealed by the 2010controversy begun by author Jodi Picoult over the gushing treatment Jonathan Franzen?sFreedom received … Read more

“Anthropologists as Spies… RIP: Prof. George Stocking Jr….An anthropology roundup..

by

George Stocking Jr., ‘Anthropology’s Anthropologist,’ Dies at 84 New York Times George W. Stocking Jr., a historian of science who chronicled the norms, customs and tribal beliefs of modern anthropologists, documenting a history of racial bias and ethnocentrism as well as great insights, died on July 13 in Chicago. He was 84 Anthropologists as Spies This piece … Read more

Alan Turing to be given a posthumous pardon by the British government…

by

Alan Turing, Brilliant Mathematician and Code Breaker, Will Be Finally Pardoned by British Government ?Alan Turing, the Enigma codebreaker who took his own life after being convicted of gross indecency under anti-homosexuality legislation, is to be given a posthumous pardon,? writes The Guardian today.  

A literati roundup: Noam Chomsky to Postmoderns: Over-Inflated ?Polysyllabic Truisms?…

by

Noam Chomsky Calls Postmodern Critiques of Science Over-Inflated ?Polysyllabic Truisms? To the delight and satisfaction of hundreds of our readers, we recently featured an interview in which Noam Chomsky slams postmodernist intellectuals like Slavoj Zizek and Jacques Lacan as ?charlatans? and posers. The turn against postmodernism has been long in coming, a backlash the political … Read more

Two SF losses recently… RIP, Richard Matheson & Parke Godwin

by

RIP, Richard Matheson, 1926-2013 I’m sorry to have to report that Richard Matheson, author of such horror and science fiction classics as I Am Legend and What Dreams May Come, has died at the age of 87. According to his daughter, he died at home, peacefully, surrounded by loved ones. Our condolences to his friends … Read more

R.I.P: Iain Banks Dies at 59.. A literati roundup…

by

Scottish author Iain Banks Dies at 59 Scottish author Iain Banks has died at the age of 59. Banks found out earlier this year that he had gall bladder that had spread and was inoperable. He said in a blog post to fans that he had less than a year to live. He married his … Read more

17-18-19 Haziran 2013’de Bilgi’de: “Kitleleri Yeniden Düşünmek: Şiddet, Hukuk ve Demokrasi

by

Tarih: 17-18-19 Haziran 2013 Saat: 9.30-17.30 Yer: santralistanbul Kampüsü, E1-301 Gün geçtikçe daha da büyüyen, çoğalan, farklı etnik yapılara ve sosyal sınıflara dağılan kitle şiddeti, artık hukuk sistemlerini ve adına demokrasi dediğimiz toplumsal örgütlenmeleri tekrar sorgulamamızı gerektirmektedir. Kitlenin hukukla, siyasetle, demokrasiyle ilişkisini ve etki alanını ortaya koymak, hem içinde bulunduğumuz veya bulunmak istediğimiz sistemleri hem de insan … Read more