BITS Summer School attendants’ blogs for their Istanbul experience

Throughout July, I will be teaching the course, Social Media and Corporate Communication, for a group of students from BITS University, Germany. There is a summer school, hosted at Bilgi University by BITS and I am one of the lecturers.  There will be other blogs to be added to the list, check out Istanbul experiences … Read more

Tanıtım günleri yaklaşırken… Üniversite (tanıtım) filmlerinden seçmeler…

Lütfen video önerilerinizin linklerini yorum kısmına ekleyin;) Bilgi’nin yeni tanıtım filmi:  supermen bir zamanlar fırtınalar estirirdim – habervesaire ekibi- bilgi ü. Koç Üniversitesi Mezunlar Filmi Boğaziçi Üniversitesi / Tanıtım Filmi – 2011 Grease Müzikali – Summer Nights – Kadir Has Üniversitesi Öğrencileri Kadir Has Üniversitesi Black Eyed Peas – Pump It HD Clip gerçekten bilgiliyim- bilgi ü 2011 tanıtım … Read more

Bilgi’de 6-7 Temmuz’da Sanat ve Kültür Yönetimi Lisansüstü Öğrenci Konferansı var…

Sanat ve Kültür Yönetimi Lisansüstü Öğrenci Konferansı’na davetlisiniz.   Ekte programını görebileceğiniz Konferans 6-7 Temmuz 2012 tarihlerinde İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Dolapdere Kampüsü?nde, BS-1 numaralı amfide gerçekleştirilecek. Dolapdere Kampüsü?ne ulaşmak için Taksim AKM önünden İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi?ne ait mekik servislere binilebilir ? servisler haftaiçi yarım saatte bir, haftasonu saat başında kalkmaktadır.   Konferans’ta görüşmek üzere,   … Read more

Book website: Artpolitik: Social Anarchist Aesthetics in an Age of Fragmentation

Artpolitik: Social Anarchist Aesthetics in an Age of Fragmentation Neala Schleuning Artpolitik examines the relationship between art and politics, focusing on radical political aesthetics in western culture since the end of the nineteenth century. Drawing from Surrealism, Socialist Realism, the Situationist International, capitalist consumer aesthetics, and critical theory, Neala Schleuning elaborates a social anarchist approach … Read more

Video: İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi Öğrenci Projeleri

Faculty members and Online Education… and an academic roundup

Conflicted: Faculty and Online Education, 2012 Professors fear the growth (and question the outcomes) of online education more than academic technology administrators do, but many see promise in the medium — especially if they have taught an online course. ********* Pick of Recent Books that Most Probably Influence the Academic Thought from Ideas on Europe … Read more

An Open Access discussion at Material World blog, Keith Hart and Online Anthropology and more.. an Anthro roundup…

Keith Hart and Online Anthropology from Anthropology Report by Jason Antrosio Back in anthropology graduate school, I read (but did not fully understand) Keith Hart?s Heads or Tails? Two Sides of the Coin. Now, over 20 years after that publication?and over 40 years after his first publications?Keith Hart is a force in online anthropology and … Read more

“Some Ottoman publications available online

Şemseddin Sâmî, 1850-1904. Kamusü’l-a’lâm = Dictionnaire universel d’histoire et de géographie. ????? ??????? : ????? ? ??????? ?????? ? ????? ????? ???? ????? ???? ?? ????? İstanbul: Mihran Matbaası, 1306-1316 [1889-1898]. 6 vols. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/003270491 Le Miroir de l’art musulman = Mir’ât-i Sanânyi’-i İslâmiyye. ???? ????? ??????? Paris: Hakky-Bey, 1898. No 1 (1er mars 1898)-no 2 … Read more

Dear Prof. David Harvey, here is why the open letter adressed to you about Bilgi U. is bullshit:

Dear Prof. Harvey, I am deeply honored that you will be our guest at Istanbul Bilgi University. I realized that an open letter is addressed to you about your visit and talks at the university I have been lecturing. I did need to write to clear some of the arguments in that letter which is … Read more

#pub204 (@bilgi_pr) finalinin 2. sorusuna da cevaplar geldi. hepsi burada:

Sanırım akademik hayatımın en deneyimsel derslerinden birini yapıyorum. Dijital Kültürler dersinin finalini tek bir kerede değil bir dizi soruyla çevrimiçi şekilde icra ediyoruz. Aşağıdaki playlistin başında final sorusu var, çoğu arkadaş ilk defa video hazırlıyor, zaten amaç da oydu, o yüzden kırıcı değil de yapıcı olarak her türlü geri besleme (feedback) bizim için iyi olacaktır… … Read more

An edited volume: “Punakademics” – free to download…

  Punkademics Edited by Zack Furness The basement show in the ivory tower… In the thirty years since Dick Hebdige published Subculture: The Meaning of Style, the seemingly antithetical worlds of punk rock and academia have converged in some rather interesting, if not peculiar, ways. A once marginal subculture documented in homemade ?zines and three … Read more

Bilgi’de @BilgiPRclub Erkan Saka ve Ercüment Büyükşener’le #yenimedya söyleşisi yaptı…

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A few books on “Race in Europe”

I stole the book titles from an ongoing discussion at H-SAE mailing list:) Susan J. Terrio (2009) Judging Mohamed: Juvenile Delinquency, Immigration, and Exclusion at the Paris Palace of Justice. Jacqueline Nassy Brown (2005) Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail: Geographies of Race in Black Liverpool. Slavenka Drajykucm’s , Café Europe: Life After Communism is a great … Read more

The new capitalists by Fawaz Gerges/ Yale?s Open Courses/ Massive Courses, Massive Data and more.. Academic roundup

Massive Courses, Massive Data Harvard and MIT hope their free online courses will not only give learners access to top courses, but also give education researchers access to unprecedented pools of learning data. The new capitalists: Islamists’ political economy, Fawaz A Gerges from open Democracy News Analysis – by Fawaz A Gerges Islamist parties are … Read more

Serhatcan Yurdam’ın derlemesi: Bilgi Üniversitesi’nde #eyaramaz Paneli

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