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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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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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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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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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#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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Most read posts in 2018 in Erkan’s Field Diary…
image via I have unintentionally created some clickable posts, I guess. 1 grams7enufi7jmdl.onion Gram: “Google for the dark web.” A Cyberculture roundup… 2 A video: Turkish Porn Star Şahin K’s... 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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Paying tributes to metal gods in Anaheim, CA
Wherever I go, I pay my tributes to metal gods (Do you remember my Black Metal sites visit in Norway?). Now I am thinking it has been 30 years I listen... Read more
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The Protector (from Netflix)
Just finished the Protector. I don’t know why but the show reminded me of Netflix’s failing “Iron Fist”. The only reason I finished the first season was to see places... 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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Beware of @FlixBus dear fellow travellers…
My 5-day intense trip ended last night as I arrived back to lovely Irvine. The only problem was the last part of the trip. Instead of continuing the train trip... Read more
