Our Doha conference news: “University of Cambridge – Al Jazeera Center for Studies Media Project Conference held in Doha, January 7-8, 2017 — Centre for the Study of the International Relations of the Middle East and North Africa

On January 7-8, 2017, the final Conference for the Media in Political Transition in the southern Mediterranean was held in Doha, the Al Jazeera headquarters. The Conference brought together the eight academics from Morocco, and seven from Turkey, who make up the scholarly team for this second tranche of the research project…. Source: University of … Read more

Erkan tweeting from NOCISTANBUL #nocistanbul

    official website: http://www.nocistanbul.com/ Twitter hashtag: #nocistanbul I will try to do my best in Turkish and in English to sum up the talks… from my own Twitter account. ?Fatih Projesi 750 bin öğretmene ulaşacak? İstanbul Bilgi ve Harvard Üniversitesi tarafından düzenlenen Bilgi ve İletişim Teknolojileri (ICT) sempozyumu, uluslararası alandan birçok akademisyenin de katılımıyla İstanbul?da … Read more

Bugün Kadir Has’ta, Cumartesi Bahçeşehir’de….

13.00-14.45- Social Media Developments – Impacts to Media Change: New Media-New Society Chairperson: Yard. Doç. Dr. Murat Akser, Kadir Has University Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dr. Dimitris Charalambis, University of Athens Tartışmacılar: ? İsmail Hakkı Polat, Kadir Has University ? Dr. Özgür Uçkan, Bilgi University ? Yard. Doç. Dr. Erkan Saka, Bilgi University ? Yard. Doç. … Read more

Our #wlic2012 FAIFE panel “Sleepwalking into a control society?” Storified:

IFLA 2012 Conference Session 75 Sleepwalking into a control society? Committee on Free Access to Information and Freedom of Expression (FAIFE) Congress track 1: Open access and digital resources. 12 August 2012 13:45 – 15:45 | Room: Session Room 1 | SI [View the story “Our #wlic2012 FAIFE panel \”Sleepwalking into a control society?\” Storified: … Read more

Game Theory people, all Beautiful Minds, in Bilgi University! 22-26 July –GAMES2012: The 4th World Congress of The Game Theory Society

here is the official link

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

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]

Jeremy Zilar, the NY Times Blog specialist, stopped by Istanbul

Jeremy with from L-R: Erkan, Salih Memecan, Deniz Ergürel, Hıdır Geviş, Rana Şenol Invited by Media Association, Jeremy Zilar, NY Times blog specialist, gave two speeches on Tuesday. … A review in Turkish here. A summary of this talk in Turkish again here. I have learned that 23% blog traffic goes to the home page … Read more

Announcement: A Panel on Coup D’Etats in Turkey

24 December. santralistanbul. E1-301 14:00-16:30

Sevcan tells us about DMG ?New Media Order? Conference

(photo source here) I know that it was a late post about this activity. Please accept my apology. My workload and the thesis semester take all my time and I cannot even find time to go to the meetups regularly. I want to add that, there will be Diwali Festival in UAE and India. Indians … Read more

Two Announcements: Free Software and Linux Days Event/ Internet Week

Official site in English. the 10th Internet Week events organized by a platform of Internet related associations. Call for Action in Turkish here.