How DRM screws people with visual disabilities: a report from the front lines from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow ZDNet’s Rupert Goodwins is going blind. Most of us will lose a substantial fraction of our visual acuity, should we live long enough. As a service to his readers, Goodwins is documenting the way that technology … Read more
A Brief Survey of Victorian Science Fiction from Wondermark by David Malki ! At Chicon the other week, I moderated a panel on Victorian and Edwardian science fiction. I?ve read some of the classics ? Verne and Wells and so on ? but I was excited to moderate this panel because it meant I could … Read more
Turkey’s miscarriage of justice Washington Post Turkey’s courts have been working overtime to throw government opponents of all political stripes behind bars. Since 2007, the government has run a series of trials against an alleged ultra-nationalist terrorist organization called Ergenekon, charging Turkey convicts more than 300 soldiers in coup trial (VIDEO) from Yahoo news Turkey … Read more
Turkish generals sentenced to 20 years in jail in coup case from Hurriyet Daily News A court in Istanbul has sentenced retired Air Force Cmdr. Gen. İbrahim Fırtına, retired 1st Army Cmdr. Gen. Çetin Doğan and retired Navy Cmdr. Adm. Özden Örnek … Angry mob attacks BDP building in Turkey’s east from Hurriyet Daily News … Read more
Twitter Policy?s Latest Victim: If This Then That from Mashable! by Peter Pachal IFTTT forced to remove Twitter triggers on September 27th to comply with new API policies from The Next Web by Matthew Panzarino Why IFTTT being forced to remove its Twitter triggers is a red alert for developers from The Next Web by … Read more
Savaşın manasını bilen? Genç ve dinamik Türkiye ?savaş, kan, ölüm? nöbetinde ceset hesabı tutuyor. Hâlâ çatışma yorgunu değil. Partinin biri idam cezası sandukaları koymuş meydanlara, ?halk idam geri gelsin? diyesiymiş. Çeyrek yüzyıldır bu toprağı esir almış şiddetten arınmak kolay değil elbet. O çeyrek yüzyılı çok daha gerilere götürmek mümkün. Hayatın her köşesine, her tavır … Read more
One Year of Occupy. One Year of Journalist Arrests. from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin Josh Stearns has been tracking “press suppression and journalist arrests,” which became a regular occurrence since the start of Occupy Wall Street on September 17, 2011. “As press, protesters and police converge in New York City for the one year … Read more
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via This is how unarmed soldiers wait in the transfer points… This photo was shared by a journalist, Özden Erkuş The photo appeared after the PKK latest attack on unarmed soldiers’ bus convoy to be transferred…
Dünya Yazılım Özgürlüğü Günü Bildirgesi 15.09.2012 Yaşamımız her gün teknoloji, akıllı cihazlar ve bunları çalıştıran yazılımlar nedeniyle her gün gelişmekte, kolaylaşmakta ve zenginleşmektedir. Yazılım, bilişimi; bilişim, bilim ve teknoloji ise insanlığı bilgi toplumuna götürmektedir. Bir başka deyişle, yazılım … Read more
A photo from the attacked bus convoy carrying soliders… PKK hits unarmed soldiers returning from leave: 10 killed, 60 injured from Hurriyet Daily News Ten soldiers were killed and 63 were injured today after a Turkish military convoy transporting unarmed soldiers returning from leave was hit by a rocket before coming under fire PM: … Read more
I have collected these references in a Media Anthropology Network discussion:) The Idea of Public Sphere: A Reader, published by Lexington Books, 2010 *Publics and Counterpublics* – Michael Warner Radical Media: rebellious communication and social movements, John Downing. Birgit Meyer and Annelies Moors (2006, Indiana University Press) offer a stimulating and anthropologically driven discussion on … Read more
If Google yanks “Innocence of Muslims,” will it lose its DMCA Safe Harbor? from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Robert Cringely speculates on the reasoning behind Google’s decision to continue hosting the controversial “Innocence of Muslims” clip despite a request from the State Department to remove it. Cringely believes that Google worries that if it … Read more
Many members of a radical left wing music band, Grup Yorum, have been recently arrested after a suicide bombing attack to a police station in Istanbul by the illegal organization this band is close to. However, Grup Yorum is around for ages, has a public reputation and a few years ago, more than 30 thousand … Read more
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