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CEAUSSIC: Ethics Casebook

from American Anthropological Association by Brian

Dr. Laura McNamara

?The AAA?s Ad Hoc Commission on Anthropology?s Engagement with the Security and Intelligence Communities (CEAUSSIC) continues its work. Our main activities at present include: 1. the writing of a report to the AAA on the widely and hotly debated Human Terrain System of the U.S. Army, 2. The editing of a casebook illustrating the diversity of kinds of practicing anthropology, including associated ethical questions, with a primary emphasis upon the security sector broadly conceived, 3. And providing support for the AAA?s ongoing ethics process. In an effort to keep our work transparent and part of the public and disciplinary discussion of all of the above, CEAUSSIC is also going to be contributing a monthly entry to the AAA?s blog. Each entry, by different CEAUSSIC members, will address topics that have arisen or that we have been thinking about, which we will continue to discuss via the blog, a discussion in which we hope you will also participate.?

iPad emerges as Erkan plays with his humble Sony Reader

January 28, 2010 by admin

A few days ago, I got a Sony Reader as a gift from Ayhan. It is a way modest gadget compared to iPad but still I love it. It has immediately boosted my reading level which had been down lately. Well, with something like iPad, e-reading will be even more sensational, i guess…

Best Coverage, Tweets of Apple iPad Event

from MediaShift

Anthro research hit the news: Don’t trust the number of Facebook friends:)

January 25, 2010 by admin

Well, as a person who has more than a thousand friends in Facebook, I had already experienced that, now we scientify it (!):

Brain Can’t Handle More Than 150 Facebook Friends Finds Oxford Boffin
ITProPortal
A professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University has found out that human beings are physically limited to being able to link up and manage up

Despite web censorship, Turks are heavy social media users

January 25, 2010 by admin

Here is the latest news on Turks into social media: Turkey: The land that embraced Facebook, FriendFeed and startups ……… Furthermore, last year ComScore released a report showing Turkey has the third most engaged online audience in the world, with 30 hours spent online each month ? that?s actually behind the US and Canada. See … Read more

“Escorted Ethnography

January 16, 2010 by admin

Army’s Anthropology Teams Under Fire, But in Demand National Defense Magazine A November report by the American Anthropological Association’s Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Escorted Ethnography: Ethics, the Human Terrain System and American Anthropology in Conflict. Daily, Eric from eScholarship Repository Despite claims that the U.S. military?s new … Read more

New Hürriyet ads. “More liberties needed” (and more selected videos…)

January 14, 2010 by admin

New Hürriyet ad. Popular singer Nil Karaibrahimgil acts… Another new Hürriyet ad. Zuhal Olcay acts… Malice in Wonderland. A Cartoon Porn. Amnesty Int Venezuela ad. Lazarus on Down- Live performance at Hotel Cafe in Hollywood on December 13, 2007 Official Trailer to Office 2010 The Movie

Google officially changes attitude towards China censorship

January 13, 2010January 13, 2010 by admin

A new approach to China from The Official Google Blog Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis. In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google. However, it … Read more

“Report of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media on Turkey and Internet Censorship

January 12, 2010 by admin

Report of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media on Turkey and Internet Censorship

from CyberLaw Blog

Report of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media on Turkey and Internet Censorship (PDF file)

Prepared by Dr. Yaman Akdeniz, Associate Professor, Human Rights Law Research Center, Faculty of Law, Istanbul Bilgi University.

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HTS people are advised to read The Deceivers

January 11, 2010 by admin

I Hope That The Human Terrain Teams Read The Deceivers by John Masters: An Anthropological Novel

from Ethnography.com by Tony

One of my favorite all-time historical novels is The Deceivers by John Masters. Published in 1952, the protagonist William Savage is an administrator in a remote district for the British East Indian Company. The book is set in 1825. Savage speaks four Indian languages, and has spent 19 years in the colonial service. As a colonial administrator, he is ?the law? in his district. But to do this, he lives in an Indian village, embedded in Indian cultures and languages. No garrisoned ?Forward Operating Base? with a VCR, pool table, video games, or other comforts of home for him!

“Bono’s filesharing hypocrisy…E-reader market… Nexus and more…

January 9, 2010 by admin

More on Bono’s filesharing hypocrisy: Gigi Sohn of Public Knowledge

from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin

Public Knowledge founder Gigi Sohn tackles Bono’s recent NYT op-ed, in which the rock star suggested we follow China’s lead on net-filtering technology to limit the scourge of file sharing. Ms. Sohn writes: But the most absurd thing about Bono’s endorsement of draconian copyright enforcement is that it undermines just about everything else he professes to stand for. Look at the activities and goals of One, the nonprofit organization Bono co-founded. One is “committed to the fight against extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa.” It “campaign[s] for better development policies, more effective aid and trade reform. We also support greater democracy, accountability and transparency to ensure policies to beat poverty are implemented effectively.” Among the specific issues One works on are the treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDs and malaria, increasing access to quality education and ensuring trade policies that “create economic growth and opportunities for the poorest people.”

T. Boellstorff: Coming of Age in Second Life

January 6, 2010 by admin

I recently finished reading Tom Boellstorff’s Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human. As an anthropologist Prof. Boellstroff added another site to the Archive of anthropology. It surely became a must-read in the growing anthropological literature on cybercultures. My major concern is what he repeatedly insists (also in the quotation … Read more

Klaus Jurgens on Turkey?s future media professionals

January 4, 2010 by admin

Promoting an uncensored press: Meet Turkey?s future media professionals

by KLAUS JURGENS

As 2010 is by now two days old and the nation holds its breath as new revelations are made about shady underworld networks as well as ?official? deep state involvement, with the discovery of the so-called ?cosmic rooms? being only one of the topics, I thought it necessary to give column space to some members of Turkey?s younger generation.

Dinç Bilgin interview in Star.

It is not the first time, old media conglomerate Dinç Bilgin, ex-rival of Aydın Doğan talks “honestly”. But here you are are, another one he talks about his days as a media conglomerate. (In Turkish though)

and more on media…

FT on Wikipedia: “Wikipedia: Fact and friction

January 3, 2010 by admin

Wikipedia: Fact and friction By Richard Waters Published: January 1 2010 22:17 | Last updated: January 1 2010 22:17 It is one of the great paradoxes of the internet: an essentially open medium has created deeply entrenched information powers. Within a remarkably short time, companies such as Google, YouTube and Facebook have come to dominate … Read more

7 Myths And Facts About Citizen Journalism

December 30, 2009 by admin

Citizen journalism refers to people who often do not have any real training in journalism reporting news or commenting on current events. With the advent of the internet, average people gained a powerful voice that was once only available to professional journalists. People misunderstand much about the concept and practice of citizen journalism. The following 7 myths and facts about citizen journalism will help to reveal the truth of this form of journalism.

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