Mastodon – like Twitter, without Nazis Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder Sarah Jeong of Motherboard says Mastodon is a “kinder, nicer, decentralized open source version of Twitter.” I hope she’s right! (I’m frauenfelder at Mastodon.cloud.) The promises and problems of Mastodon, a Twitter alternative Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder Intrigued by Mastodon, a new open-source alternative to … Read more
Public e-seminar on media practices and the radical imagination media/anthropology by John Postill By Veronica Barassi via EASA Media Anthropology Network mailing list We will be launching our next e-seminar on Tuesday 25 October 2016 at 00:00 GMT. If you are new to the list, our e-seminars run for a period of 2 weeks and … Read more
Decolonizing Anthropology Textbook Covers Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog by Decolonizing Anthropology This entry is part 8 of 8 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By: Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall and Jennifer Esperanza As young anthropology students in the 90s we heard Dr. Faye Harrison call: decolonizing anthropology is about “working to free … Read more
Sockpuppets and spambots: How states manipulate social networks firstdraftnews.com If you’re a user of a major social network, chances are you’ve been friended, followed or mentioned by a suspicious-looking account at some point. They probably tried to sell you something or get you to click a link, and you were probably able to spot the fake … Read more
Azeri journalist dies after beating BBC News | Europe | World Edition A journalist in Azerbaijan who criticised a popular footballer on social media is fatally beaten by football fans. How much do you make? A CUNY grad student is collecting data on salaries in journalism Nieman Journalism Lab by Joseph Lichterman Julia Haslanger wants to know … Read more
Facebook Media Venture to Include NBC, BuzzFeed and New York Times nytimes.com – Vindu Goel – May 13 – MENLO PARK, Calif. — Facebook ‘s long-rumored plan to directly host articles from news organizations will start onWednesday, concluding months of delicate negotiations between the Internet giant and publishers that covet its huge audience The Cost of … Read more
Click here to follow RedHack and Anonymous Team Up for November 5 Protests See on Scoop.it ? Another World Now! November 5 is a symbolic date on which hacktivists and activists from all over the world plan on protesting and marching for various causes. RedHack a? #BillionMaskMarch Events List ? Latest Update ? 443 City Across the World and Growing … Read more
What Makes a Sex Shop Halal? Responding to apparent pent-up demand for tacky bachelorette parties, the 38-year old Turkish entrepreneur Haluk Murat Demirel has opened the country’s first halal (permissible in Islam) sex shop online. It’s not the first such enterprise in the world — successful predecessors can be found in such varied locales … Read more
Criminalizing Journalism: Manning, Media and You Illustration: Reuters/William Hennessy Pierre Bourdieu?s charts and journalism Journalists should take nothing for granted but, instead, look at the silences in the world and ask: why? American model of media and journalism or why the “revolution” might not be televised Living in USA within the last month … Read more
Başbakanı hoş tutalım Kimi akıldâneler yüzleri kızarmadan ?Gezi Kürt barışını engelledi? diye yazabiliyor. Mantık şu düzlükte: ?Erdoğan Gezi?ye çok kızdı; Erdoğan Gezi Krizi?nden sonra değişmem dedi; Türkiye?de Erdoğan?dan başka yönetici yok; Kızgın Erdoğan artık Kürtlerle barış yapmayabilir; İllâ yapsın diyorsanız Gezi?yi unutun, unutturun, Erdoğan?ın suyuna gidin!? Yeni siyasi kategori: Masumlar Gezi Krizi münasebetiyle yeni bir ?siyasî? … Read more