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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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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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#Europe agenda: “Theresa May’s #Brexit Deal Failed Epically…
Theresa May’s Brexit Deal Failed Epically in Parliament. But No One Has a Better Idea. Slate Articles / One of the more dramatic subplots of the very dramatic day in Britain’s... Read more
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“Trump Threatens to ‘Devastate Turkey Economically’ if It Attacks Kurds” BUT Turkish leadership downplays it…
Not that they are really scared, I believe, as with the US retreat, Turkey gets what she wants in northern Syria. Under normal conditions, there would be angry talk-backs, trolls... Read more
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Better than nothing (!) – 2018 Democracy Index: Turkey Ranks 110th
2018 Democracy Index: Turkey Ranks 110th Bianet :: English Turkey has ranked 110th among 167 countries in 2018 Democracy Index released by the Economist. The magazine has emphasized, “Turkey’s score declined... Read more
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“Hawkish” Bolton could not pass Turkey test, it seems…
Erdogan Says Turkey Cannot ‘Swallow the Message’ From Bolton NYT > Turkey by By REUTERS / President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey denounced comments from the U.S. national security adviser John Bolton... Read more
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#Europe agenda: “Protests against President Aleksandar Vučić spread from Belgrade to cities across Serbia…
Protests against President Aleksandar Vučić spread from Belgrade to cities across Serbia Global Voices Online Protesters in the streets of Belgrade, Serbia, on December 29, 2018. Unknown author, widely shared... Read more
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Turkey, the top journalist jailer, gets the credit to imprison a journalist over #PanamaPapers
Someone’s finally going to jail over the Panama Papers: a Turkish journalist who reported true facts from them Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow A Turkish court has sentenced journalist Pelin Ünker to... Read more
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“3D City Modelling of #Istanbul and other news…
Wandering In Istanbul BLOUIN ARTINFO A veteran of the Istanbul arts scene, Guleryuz has spent decades running alternative galleries and even comes with a family pedigree as the son of the 3D... Read more
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Turkish Presidential Office was busy with refuting American claims
This is more political, not much can be done. Turkey rebuffs Pompeo’s remarks over ‘slaughtering Kurds’ Hurriyet Daily News “Turkey has decried recent remarks by the U.S. secretary of state on... 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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#anthropology agenda: “The role of anthropology and technology in the Ebola vaccine response…
What 2018 Taught Us About Everything Human SAPIENS In the fall of 2018, thousands of migrants, mainly from Central America, approached the U.S.-Mexico border, hoping for an How A Mongolian... Read more
