Cyberculture

"Academic blogs attract growing audience

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" News and Information as Digital Media Come of Age

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Severed cable disrupts web access

Undersea internet and phone cables from Europe to the Middle East are severed, raising fears of major economic repercussions.

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"Balkan politicians wage Facebook wars..

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"Online journalists jailed more than other media

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A personal ad for Taraf daily. As Taraf tries hard to survive financial, an ad campaign started. Readers paid for these kinds of ads. Here it says, "I switch to use the cell phone service who chooses to give ads to this newspaper, I mean it."

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"Turkish Website Blocking Statistics as of 01 December 2008

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"Top 100 Anthropology Blogs

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There is a good compilation of Anthropology blogs here. In fact, not all of them are blogs but in the end it is the best collection of Anthro sites and blogs. Have a look.

" A Critical Assessment of Internet Content Regulation and Censorship in Turkey

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Internet: Restricted Access: A Critical Assessment of Internet Content Regulation and Censorship in Turkey (Released on 25 November, 2008) By Dr. Yaman Akdeniz & Dr. Kerem Altıparmak Published with the support of “Freedom of Expression” Programme of İnsan Hakları Ortak Platformu. How to obtain the Book: Internet: Restricted Access: A Critical Assessment of Internet Content … Read more

"Facebook is a weapon of mass construction

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"Turkish Website Blocking Statistics as of 01 November 2008

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A society of informers. How Turks complain about the web?

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 According to an official site that is in charge of web controls, as of 1 Nov 2008, Turkish citizens filed 25.159 complaints. 12.515 were accepted. Rough translation of the graph above (counter clockwise, from the top) that demonstrates the categories of complaint: Obscenity (55,2%), peadophily (11,9), Other (0,8), gambling (5,3), prostitution (10,6), illegal drug finding help (0,4), drug abuse (0,6), encouraging suicide (2,0), betting (0,5), insulting Atatürk (12)

Index on Censorship on Internet censorship in Turkey

Index on Censorship: ‘There are more people working on censoring the Internet than developing it’

Yigal Schleifer is a correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor

The successes of Harun Yahya show just how easy it is to shut down web discussion in Turkey, writes Yigal Schleifer

Turkish Internet users woke up on 24 October to find that access to Blogger, the popular blog-hosting site owned by Google, had been blocked by a court order, because of illegal material (streams of football games) found on a handful of blogs.


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Blogger ban is temporarily lifted while Turkey cannot make it to the "Top 10 Countries Censoring the Web"- yet

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Top 10 Countries Censoring the Web

By Nick on Internet

When the World Wide Web was created in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee (not to be confused with the Internet itself, which is the core network developed many years earlier), its main objective was to enable the free exchange of information via interlinked hypertext documents.

Almost 20 years later, that objective has been accomplished on most parts of the world, but not in all of them. Some countries are trying hard to keep an iron hand over the flow of information that takes place on the Web. Below you will find the most controversial ones. [Click the title to see who are top countries]

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"The internet is changing our brains

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The internet is changing our brains

By Jemima Kiss on Technology

More evidence, as if we needed it, that we need to make more of an effort to balance our work and personal lives.

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Facebook activities against the Blogger ban!

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 [this post will be developed with news and more announcements…]

A facebook group against the Blogger ban (in Turkish) 

Another group against censorship. 

Another one:

Blogger / BlogSpot Yasağı Kalksın

A Facebook cause:  Stop Internet Censorship in Turkey!.

A group I had founded:

Net freedom in Turkey!

Some related news: 

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Turkey is not a country to live like a civilized human…

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Blogger is censored today. There is no access to Blogger accounts from Turkey…. Personally, I am now looking for an opportunity to leave this country…  World’s largets blog hosting service banned in TurkeyEarthtimes (press release), UK – 4 hours agoAnkara – A court in south-east Turkey on Friday banned Turkish internet users from accessing Blogger, the world’s … Read more

"The First Annual Savage Minds Awarding of teh Excellents

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Savage Minds, the most significant multi-authored anthropology blog starts anthropology blog awards! The First Annual Savage Minds Awarding of teh Excellents almost has a full slate of candidates (only a couple of nominations came in by email). I’m shooting for 6 nominees in each category. We need a few more before we can move on … Read more