My short piece published at Anthropology News: #Cryptocurrency Usage in Turkey Anthropology News

Here is the link to the piece. You can download as PDF here. It has been written a while ago but finally published. Thanks to Dr. Nazlı Özkan’s efforts…

#Cyberculture agenda: “China’s Operating Manuals for Mass Internment and Arrest by Algorithm”

Exposed: China’s Operating Manuals for Mass Internment and Arrest by Algorithm – ICIJ International Consortium of Investigative Journalists – Nov 24 A new leak of highly classified Chinese government documents has uncovered the operations manual for running the mass detention camps in Xinjiang and exposed the mechanics of the region’s Orwellian system of mass surveillance and … Read more

#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 your music collection, and burning up to 10 times as many of these onto audio discs than you could with traditional CD tracks. I didn’t … Read more

#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 researchers. Twitter and TV Superfans (Study) All Facebook by David Cohen   How do “superfans” of television show behave on Twitter, and what should marketers do … Read more