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#Cyberculture agenda: UK Parliament’s Fake News Report
UK Parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Fake News Inquiry final report which is just published: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmcumeds/1791/1791.pdf ************ Users flood Reddit with China censorship memes, balk at $150 million investment from... Read more
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Strong German rule over Facebook’s private data usage… #cyberculture agenda…
Germany just deleted Facebook Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Germany’s Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt, the country’s antitrust regulator) has ruled that Facebook can’t combine user data aggregated from different sources (Facebook usage data, data... Read more
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Türkiye İnternet Tarihi (Yeni Medya Çalışmaları V) @altbilisim tarafından yayınlandı!
Kitabı buradan indirebilirsiniz. Erkan Saka tarafından kaleme alınan arka kapak yazısından: Türkiye’ye İnternetin girişinin ve internet içeriğinin birçok gizli kahramanı var. Bunlardan bazılarını bu kitapta temsil edemediğimize inanıyorum. Alanında en kapsamlı... Read more
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Two books on Silicon Valley
I have recently read two books on Silicon Valley. One is already a best-seller: Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley I loved the way the author used... Read more
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Check out the 2018 Corporate Accountability Index by the The Ranking Digital Rights #Cyberculture agenda…
Here is the link. The Ranking Digital Rights 2018 Corporate Accountability Index evaluates 22 of the world’s most powerful internet, mobile, and telecommunications companies on their disclosed... Read more
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Call for Chapters- Ethnographic Approaches to Alternative Cryptocurrency Function and Development [The Social Lives of Altcoins]
I and Anıl worked on this edited book proposal and IGI Global accepted to publish. Feel free to share and contribute, if you can! Call for Chapters: Ethnographic Approaches to... Read more
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Facebook’s #10yearschallenge encounters with veiling politics in Turkey
The Wired piece is heavily shared and I am quite sure nothing Facebook does recently should be taken at its face value. Leaving this fact aside, when users began to... Read more
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Netflix gave in to Saudis. So let’s share it: “Saudi Arabia | Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj #cyberculture agenda
Netflix pulls ‘Patriot Act’ episode in Saudi Arabia after it criticized … https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/01/middleeast/netflix-patriot-act-hasan…/index.html 10 hours ago – Netflix has blocked an episode of a comedy show which is critical of Crown Prince... Read more
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“2018 Was a Rough Year for Truth Online” #journalism #cyberculture
2018 Was a Rough Year for Truth Online Wired Top Stories by Paris Martineau The internet has been awash with misinformation for years, but researchers are finally realizing it’s hard to quantify... Read more
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#Cyberculture: Facebook 2018 scandals… Social media and ‘Crucial Evidence Of War Crimes Is Vanishing
The Histories Of Today’s Wars Are Being Written On Social Media, But Crucial Evidence Of War Crimes Is Vanishing BuzzFeed News – Megha Rajagopalan – Dec 22, 6:30 AM Dressed in... Read more
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What did you expect? “‘They clearly don’t care’: Fact-checkers on the state of misinformation at Facebook #Cyberculture agenda…
‘They clearly don’t care’: Fact-checkers on the state of misinformation at Facebook The Next Web by Bryan Clark After a deluge of fake news began to overwhelm Facebook, it got proactive. The... Read more
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#Cyberculture agenda: Thanks to British Member of Parliament we learn more inside workings of Facebook – and not that good stuff at all…
UK Documents Suggest Facebook Traded User Privacy For Growth Wired Top Stories by Issie Lapowsky Newly public documents provide a rare window into CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s thoughts on how to expand his... Read more
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#Cyberculture agenda: PEW report on “Teens’ Social Media Habits and Experiences”
50,000 printers hacked to help PewDiePie keep his YouTube crown The Next Web by Ivan Mehta The battle for YouTube supremacy between Swedish vlogger PewDiePie and Indian record label T-Series is getting... Read more
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#Cyberculture agenda: “MIT Media Lab announces this year’s Disobedience Prize winners: #MeToo and #MeTooSTEM
MIT Media Lab announces this year’s Disobedience Prize winners: #MeToo and #MeTooSTEM Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow For the second year now, the MIT Media Lab has awarded a “Disobedience Prize” of... Read more
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#Cyberculture agenda: “Amazon workers held strikes across Europe on Black Friday…
Amazon workers held strikes across Europe on Black Friday The Social Software Weblog Amazon workers across Europe took part in walkouts on Black Friday to protest what they say are unfair... Read more
