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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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#Cyberculture agenda: R.I.P for MP3?
The MP3 format is officially dead The Next Web by Abhimanyu Ghoshal If you grew up in the 90s and early 2000s, you probably still remember downloading MP3 files to build... Read more
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#Cyberculture agenda: “Dormant Botnet of 350,000 Twitter Accounts…
Cybersecurity Experts Uncover Dormant Botnet of 350,000 Twitter Accounts MIT Technology Review A massive botnet secretly infiltrated the Twitterverse in 2013 but has lain mysteriously dormant since then, say... Read more
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Cyberculture agenda: A #PokemonGo roundup…
How Pokémon Go Conquered The World In A Week Sysomos Blog by Lance Concannon Once upon a time there was a video games company called Nintendo which was cherished by gamers... Read more
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Cyberculture agenda: “Timeline: The rise of bitcoin”…
Timeline: The rise of bitcoin AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH) A look at the history of bitcoin, the world’s newest and potentially most powerful currency. FBI’s Secret Surveillance Tech Budget Is ‘Hundreds... Read more
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Anthropology roundup: “Decolonizing Anthropology Textbook Covers….
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... Read more
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Eurosphere agenda: as “over 10,000 migrant children missing”, “EU calls on Turkey to let in refugees…
Over 10,000 migrant children missing: Europol Over 10,000 unaccompanied migrant children have disappeared in Europe, the EU police agency Europol said on Jan. 31, fearing many have been whisked into sex... Read more
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Cyberculture agenda: “Snapchat: The King of Millennial Micro-Moments…
Snapchat: The King of Millennial Micro-Moments All Facebook In 2015, Snapchat put the world on notice that the app is an advertising force to be reckoned with — maybe the advertising... Read more
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Cyberculture agenda: As Wikipedia’s 15th birthday passed, “The Most-Edited Wikipedia Pages Over The Last 15 Years…
The Most-Edited Wikipedia Pages Over The Last 15 Years FiveThirtyEight » Features by Andrew Flowers Wikipedia will turn 15 years old tomorrow. The free online collaborative encyclopedia has grown explosively: from... Read more
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Cyberculture agenda: Remembering Aaron Swartz…
Twitter’s Policy Reboot: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly EFF.org Updates by Wafa Ben Hassine January 12, 2016 Update: It is important to note that some of the language that... Read more
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Cyberculture agenda: 181,000 drones in 14 days in US registered… “Dutch reject ‘encryption backdoors’…
181,000 drones have been registered with the FAA in just 14 days The Next Web by Matthew Hussey Over the holidays, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) made drone owners register their vehicles. Since... Read more
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Cyberculture agenda: A big loss: “Ian “Debian” Murdock dies after threatening suicide
A Brief History of Debian – The Debian Manifesto debian.org [ previous ] [ Contents ] [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ A... Read more
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Cyberculture agenda: “Wikipedia-Mining Algorithm Reveals World’s Most Influential Universities…
Negotiating the WSIS+10 and the Future of the Internet Dipnote – U.S. Department of State Official Blog by Daniel Sepulveda After two and a half years of technical analysis and discussions,... Read more
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Cyberculture agenda: “HTTP error code 451 for Internet censorship… “ten-part series on surveillance & corruption…”Twitter Bots and Activists…
IETF approves HTTP error code 451 for Internet censorship Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow The 451 HTTP error code, first proposed in 2012 as a tribute to Ray Bradbury’s classic novel... Read more
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Cyberculture agenda: “A Victory for Privacy and Transparency: HRW v. DEA… “Facebook, Twitter and Google pledge to increase hate speech moderation efforts in Germany…
A Victory for Privacy and Transparency: HRW v. DEA EFF.org Updates by Mark Rumold In a victory for millions of people in the U.S. who have placed telephone calls to locations... Read more
