Corruption Perceptions Index 2021: Turkey ranks 96th among 180 countries Bianet :: English The country has dropped 43 places in the corruption index since 2013. 2021 REPORT: Turkey ranks first in violations of freedom of expression, show ECtHR statistics Bianet :: English The European Court of Human Rights handed down 78 judgements on Turkey in 2021, ruling … Read more
The letter is available here and at participating organizations’ websites in their own languages. Ms. Susan Wojcicki, It’s been almost two years since the COVID-19 pandemic started. The world has seen time and time again how destructive disinformation and misinformation can be for social harmony, democracy, and public health; too many lives and livelihoods have been ruined, and … Read more
Press release Turkey: Algorithmic persecution based on massive privacy violations used to justify human rights abuses, says new report More than 13,000 Turkish military personnel have been dismissed since July 2016 on the basis of an algorithm used by the authorities to assess the alleged “terrorist” credentials or connections of military officers and their relatives … Read more
Freedom House report: Turkey is not free on the net Bianet :: English Turkey is the country with the fastest decline in internet freedom, according to Gürkan Özturan, the rapporteur for Turkey. The report here Committee of Ministers of Council of Europe: Release Demirtaş and Kavala Bianet :: English The Committee of Ministers of the Council of … Read more
Çocuklarımızın bize "Ülke bu hale getilirken ne yaptınız" demesinden korkuyorum. pic.twitter.com/kOe3j6jGHK — Batuhan Çolak (@batuhancolak33) May 11, 2021 Ethnographic maps of European Turkey Mavi Boncuk Mavi Boncuk | Ethnographic map of European Turkey from 1877. Author Carl Sax, Austro-Hungarian diplomat in Adrianople. Source: The Bulgarians in their historical, ethnographical and political frontiers. (Atlas with 40 maps.) Preface … Read more
By Bülent Kılıç AFP Vaccination efforts in Eastern Anatolia, Turkey. via A citizen’s guide to viruses MIT Technology Review by Katie McLean The deluge of news about covid-19 can be overwhelming, but chemical engineering professor Arup Chakraborty has written a guide to help: Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity (MIT Press, 2021, $19.95), coauthored with Genentech scientist Andrey Shaw. “People … Read more
Things are bleak. But some people continue to try… Kurdish Digital Journalism eBook has come out. Edited by Murat Bayram, the book has been prepared based on the discussions held during the Kurdish Digital Media Workshop. Prepared based on the discussions held during the Kurdish Digital Media Workshop, the Kurdish Digital Journalism eBook is now online. via
New Landmark Study on Online Gendered Abuse and Disinformation Oxford Internet Institute – News by Sara Spinks 25 January 2021 Oxford Internet Institute Online gendered and sexualized abuse and disinformation against women in public life is widespread, and social media platforms are doing too little to stop it, finds a landmark study by the Woodrow Wilson … Read more
the Joseph Rowntree Fund, together with On Road Media, the Child Poverty Action Group and several other folks and organisations, have produced a ‘how-to’ booklet on reporting poverty which looks to be a useful resource for those of us teaching journalism. Click here to dowload
on behalf of our lead authors, Stephen Lewandowsky, John Cook, and Ullrich Eckert and other handbook coauthors: Yesterday, 22 leading researchers of misinformation who have joined forces released The Debunking Handbook 2020. This handbook summarizes the insights from decades of research into countering misinformation, offering a variety of strategies for preemptive interventions and corrections. According to … Read more
Turkey Freedom House Internet freedom declined this year in Turkey after the government temporarily blocked social media platforms, leaving people living in the south of the country without access to essential services and tools. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s The Pandemic’s Digital Shadow Freedom House The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating a dramatic decline in global … Read more
Osman Kavala, supporter of culture, human rights champion and bridge-builder, is approaching 1000 days in Turkey’s highest security prison on trumped-up charges. This lock-down opera film is an appeal to #FreeOsmanKavala Ask your friends to share #OsmanSnails U.S.-based documentarist produces “virtual opera” about Osman Kavala and his snails in prison U.S.-based documentary maker Robert Golden … Read more
Information, Communication & Society Black Lives Matter Online Virtual Issue Like millions of other academics and citizens worldwide we have been shocked and appalled by the brutal killing of George Floyd as yet another example of the unrelenting and deep-seated racism in our societies. iCS like many other journals has always sought to … Read more
WHAT IS THE PROBLEM? Hundreds of companies, big and small, are developing and marketing surveillance and decision-making technologies for government use. Technology can change government practices, and not always for the better. WHAT IS THE AEKit? The Algorithmic Equity Toolkit (AEKit for short) is a collection of four components designed to identify surveillance and decision-making … Read more
Project website here In the short space of that two-week delay requested by Le Monde, the text was signed by more than 3,500 researchers from more than 650 universities on every continent. On May 16, it was published in 41 newspapers in 36 countries around the world. Academics, who had signed the op-ed, took the … Read more