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The 24th Day in #OccupyTurkey. Citizens forums in several parks continue…Gov’t Threats over social media users increased…

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Turkish Liberals Turn Their Backs on Erdogan For an urban elite, including some protesters, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan?s response to demonstrations has led to a final break that began with his intimidation of the news media. Assemblies emerging in Turkey: a lesson in democracy | ROAR By Jerome Roos On June 19, 2013 The protesters are starting to counter-pose … Read more

Government threat on social media. A statement by Alternative Informatics Association #OccupyTurkey

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The wave of resistance which started at Gezi Park in Istanbul and spread all over Turkey once again clearly revealed the deep connection between real time communication of the social media and social movements. The social media became the genuine news source in an environment in which the mainstream media became the site of disinformation … Read more

Historic Win for the Pirate Party Movement in Iceland… a cyberculture roundup…

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Pirate Party Enters Iceland?s National Parliament After Historic Election Win from TorrentFreak by Ernesto Founded in 2006, the Pirate party movement has scored some big and small victories over the years. Their biggest success came in 2009 when the party won two seats at the European Parliament. During the last year this was followed by … Read more

The new capitalists by Fawaz Gerges/ Yale?s Open Courses/ Massive Courses, Massive Data and more.. Academic roundup

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Massive Courses, Massive Data Harvard and MIT hope their free online courses will not only give learners access to top courses, but also give education researchers access to unprecedented pools of learning data. The new capitalists: Islamists’ political economy, Fawaz A Gerges from open Democracy News Analysis – by Fawaz A Gerges Islamist parties are … Read more

Iran helps freeing the Turkish journalists, another symbolic blow to Turkey’s Mideast policies?

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Freed Turkish journalists arrive from Iran from Hurriyet Daily News Two Turkish journalists who went missing while reporting on the uprising in Syria two months ago ************** France: a chance to restart from Today’s Zaman, your gateway to Turkish daily news :: Columnists by BERİL DEDEOĞLU The presidential elections in France were closely monitored in … Read more

Cengiz Aktar: Arap uyanışı üzerinden yeni Soğuk Savaş

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Arap uyanışı üzerinden yeni Soğuk Savaş   Suriye?deki katliam konusunda uluslararası camianın elinden pek bir şey gelmiyor. Buna rağmen o uluslararası camianın Suriye?ye ve genelde Suriye benzeri ayaklanmalar konusunda takındığı tavırda gözle görülür dönüşümler gerçekleşiyor. Alalım Arap Birliği?ni. Kurulduğu 1945?ten beri statükonun kalesi olan bu hükümetlerarası yapı tamamen dışa dönüktü. İsrail karşıtlığıyla kenetlenir, anti-emperyalist bir … Read more

16 February- Bilgi U: Prof. Adel Iskandar’s Talk: “Of Streets and Tweets: Media and the Arab Revolutions”

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MA in Media and Communication Systems kindly invites you to Prof. Adel Iskandar?s Talk: ?Of Streets and Tweets: Media and the Arab Revolutions? (February 16, 2012; 16:00; santralistanbul Museum of Energy Seminar Room) Q&A session and cocktail will follow the talk. WITH GENEROUS CONTRIBUTIONS BY THE CANADIAN EMBASSY, ANKARA]

Anthropologists talk about ” REVOLUTION AND COUNTER-REVOLUTION IN EGYPT “; Open Access debates continue… an anthropology roundup

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HOT SPOTS: REVOLUTION AND COUNTER-REVOLUTION IN EGYPT Submitted by Cultural Anthro… on Tue, 2012-01-31 11:54 Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Egypt a Year after January 25th Guest Editors: Julia Elyachar (University of California, Irvine) and Jessica Winegar (Northwestern University) On January 25, 2011, Egyptians from all social backgrounds marched to public squares across Egypt and began an 18 day revolution … Read more

“The conditionality of EU accession has collapsed” while Arab countries eye for Turkey… A foreign policy roundup…

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The conditionality of EU accession has collapsed: Kemal Derviş from Hurriyet Daily News The terms of the European Union?s discussions with Turkey need to be reformed, according to Turkey?s former Economy Minister Kemal Derviş, who said the ‘conditionality of accession has collapsed.’ France-Turkey: The Night Will End – OpEd By Maxime Gauin The Armenian claims … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: Understanding Twitter’s country-specific basis blocking; Pew Report on Tablet and E-book reader Ownership and more…

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Twitter caves to global censorship, will block content on country-specific basis as required by Xeni Jardin   EFF: “What Does Twitter?s Country-by-Country Takedown System Mean for Freedom of Expression?” by Xeni Jardin What Does Twitter?s Country-by-Country Takedown System Mean for Freedom of Expression? from EFF.org Updates by eva Yesterday, Twitter announced in a blog post … Read more

Al Jazeera the Stream story: One year after Egypt’s uprising #Jan25

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And also check out Tweeting the second #Jan25, #Jan25 Anniversary Comments & Questions http://storify.com/ajstream/one-year-after-egypt-s-revolution

“Piracy Wars and Internet Censorship in 2011” another cyberculture roundup…

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2011: Piracy Wars and Internet Censorship from TorrentFreak by Ernesto At the end of the year when new developments draw to a close, it?s time to take a look back and take stock. Below is our overview of some of the most interesting events we reported during the first half of 2011. Take a deep … Read more

Joe Biden was in town… touted political freedoms, encouraged Turkey against Syria…

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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (L) meets Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul December 3, 2011. REUTERS/Prime Minister’s Press Office/Kayhan Ozer/Handout In Turkey, Biden touts political freedoms from Yahoo news A free political climate is essential to economic innovation, and countries that try to censor the Internet are pursuing a “dead end,” U.S. Vice … Read more

Sernur Yassıkaya: GENİŞ ORTADOĞU?DA SULAR KAYNAMA NOKTASINA ULAŞMAK ÜZERE

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GENİŞ ORTADOĞU?DA SULAR KAYNAMA NOKTASINA ULAŞMAK ÜZERE Tunus?ta başlayan Arap Devrimlerinin tüm bölgesel fay hatlarını harekete geçireceği veya aynı anda başka fay hatlarının da hareketleneceğini kim düşünebilirdi ki? Tunus?ta barışçıl şekilde gerçekleştirilen ve aynı şekilde Mısır?da Hüsnü Mübarek?in 30 yıllık iktidarını sonlandıran Arap devrimlerinin tüm dünyada özellikle Batı dünyasında oluşturduğu şaşkınlık kısa sürdü. Libya?dan itibaren, … Read more

Thanks to Facebook 3 degrees of separation now…and cyberculture roundup

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Tumblr users give Congress an earful about SOPA by Cory Doctorow Tumblr has rounded up the effects of its participation in American Censorship Day, a global day of protest of the prosed Stop Online Piracy Act, the worst proposed Internet law in American legislative history. Tumblr users did themselves very proud indeed: Joe Biden: SOPA … Read more