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My miserable first days in Boston
I had found a place to live until my stay at MIT ends. But the person who insisted I should sublet her place had not notified her roommate and so... 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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As Countdown begins for Turkey’s local elections, our Election Database project, SeçimTürk is on!
Seçimtürk has always been a collaborative project. In its various forms, students contributed significantly as part of their course work. However, this year I am away. I will need more... 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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#TrollWatch Theological pressure, Hagia Sophia and Syrian Refugees
Dear readers, let me tell you about a few incidents I have followed from my troll list at Twitter. This is about Aktrolls but I have some other lists that... Read more
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The last month in California
Despite several trips to the US before, California was one of the least known places for me. I believe I had a good opportunity in my first part of Sabbatical... Read more
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Quoted in “Fact-checkers seek out grain of truth in Turkey’s fake-news onslaught
Fact-checkers seek out grain of truth in Turkey’s fake-news onslaught POLITICO.eu ISTANBUL — The truth is having a hard time in Turkey these days. A government-led crackdown has shuttered scores... Read more
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My first take on cryptocurrency cultures
After the AAA, I was busy with other stuff and I could not write about how our conference took place. I was meaning to start my presentation with an anectode... Read more
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In Munich, Germany between 8-12 December…
I have been recently busy with overviewing recent literature on political trolls. This is for a workshop that will take place next weekend in Munich, Germany. I have been to... Read more
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Already a month in Irvine…
It has been nearly a month I am in Irvine and as if this “Californian laidbackness” has already grasped me. It took so long to provide you a new update.... Read more
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A year of Sabbatical in the US
Dear readers, you are last to know. I have waited to be done with the necessary visa and other technicalities. Now it is official. I will use my sabbatical leave at... Read more
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Farewell to Lisbon
I have started writing this post in a great cafe, Copenhagen Coffee Lab, I have saved in my Foursquare lists two years ago but only yesterday I could visit. Lisbon... Read more
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Recently quoted in vice.com and in a Doğan News Agency item
Cansel Kirazlı from DHA recently interviewed me and Ramazan Subaşı on Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica crisis. News in Turkish here. The chosen photo is fantastic. We were interviewed in my office. Me,... Read more
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Region by region, brief notes on academic job search
As some of my careful readers already know, I have been looking jobs abroad for a while. I would say, this is not as intense as I had started at... Read more
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Recent news from me. Publications, life etc.
In our bi-weekly family breakfast, I escaped to my parents’ spare room to do some reading. My nieces (5 and 3 years old) are as loud as possible as you can... Read more
