The program looks fantastic. I am happy to be part of it. We will review Post-Gezi Resistance process with my colleague Prof. Aslı Tunç tomorrow. I will probably be tweeting about it and in the end I may end up producing a piece in Turkish or in English. We will see… Lemme jump into the … Read more
President Abdullah Gül lost 80 thousand followers since yesterday after approving censorship law. News in Turkish here. Unfollow campaign news here. *************** 2013 Media: Arrests, Assaults, Interventions, Layoffs While 59 journalists and 23 publishers were arrested in 2013; 186 journalists, 1 media outlet and 2 internet sites were subjected to attacks. ECHR ordered to … 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
Snowden’s yet-unleaked leaks could be America’s ‘worst nightmare,’ says Greenwald Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist who was first to publish the documents that former NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked about the US government’s surveillance programs, gave an interview to the Argentinean daily La Nacion. Fugitive Snowden to seek temporary asylum in Russia Fugitive former intelligence … Read more
Ötekilerin Postası [Others’ Post] platform emerged as a Facebook Page to disseminate news related to Hunger Strikes in Turkey to protest mainstream media. The latter systematically ignored hunger strikes. Eventually, Ötekilerin Postası became a platform of rights journalism which invited citizen journalists to contribute. It had more than a hundred thousand fans before it was … Read more
Since the end of May, thousands of protesters have taken to the streets across Turkey, using social media with great skill to propel their rebuke of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan forward. Day after day, the protesters have leaned on Twitter and other social platforms to spread information and organize demonstrations, spurring the masses into action … Read more
Anonymous raises $54,798 through Indiegogo to kick-start its dedicated news site for Your Anon News from The Next Web by Nick Summers Who Really Opposes CISPA? from EFF.org Updates by Rainey Reitman In a hearing earlier today on the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), Representative Mike Rogers dismissed the opposition … Read more
Bobs?da oylama başladı! Rüşvet vermek, sürü psikolojisi, kartpostal, örgü örmek, sağır-dilsiz alfabesi? Birbirleriyle ne ilgisi mi var? Bunlar, Bobs?un bu yılki toplam 364 finalistinden sadece birkaçı. Bobs?un 15 üyeli uluslararası jürisi sizlerden gelen 4 bin 200?ü aşkın aday önerisini mercek altına aldığı üç haftalık hummalı bir çalışmanın ardından 14 dil ve 34 yarışma kategorisindeki finalistleri belirledi. Top sizde! Şimdi … Read more
Marking the birth of the modern-day Internet from The Official Google Blog by A Googler Today is the 30th birthday of the modern-day Internet. Five years ago we marked the occasion with a doodle. This year we invited Vint Cerf to tell the story. Vint is widely regarded as one of the … Read more
Crowdfunders vs. Banksters: New Hybrid Tactic from Spain from The Meta-Activism Project by Mary C Joyce In contemporary activism it?s not a questions of online or offline, but how to integrate the two. Tactics are likely to be hybrid, making use of tools and processes in digital and physical space. Here?s a new example of … Read more
Against the Wind: Internet, Politics and Cyber Activism in Turkey by Acturca Euxeinos. Culture and Governance in the Black Sea Region (GCE-HSG) 5/2012, pp. 14-21 by Asli Tunç * The Internet, especially social media, has gradually become a defining force in modern-day politics in Turkey. Beginning to realize the oppositional power of the Internet a … Read more
İmza kampanyasına katılmak için: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/kamuoyuna-cagrimizdir-kurtaj-tartismasina-tepkisiz/ Kamuoyuna, Bizler, Başbakan Erdoğan?ın AKP Kadın Kolları Kongresi?ndeki konuşmasında, kürtaj ve sezaryen gibi üreme pratikleri üzerine yaptığı açıklamaları kınıyoruz. Bu açıklamaları, kadınların bedenleri üzerindeki denetimi devletin ana meselelerinden biri olarak gören genel siyasal yaklaşımın parçası olarak görüyoruz. Söz konusu otoriter ve muhafazakâr yönelimin bu alandaki kamu politikası ve yasal çerçeveyi nasıl … Read more
Turkish cyber activists hack into milk firm websites over poisoning fiasco from Hurriyet Daily News Turkish cyber activist group RedHack hacked… Internet slows intellectual development in children, Turkish official says from Hurriyet Daily News Excessive Internet use harms the intellectual development of children, according to Professor Necdet Ünüvar, the head of the Parliamentary Commission on … Read more
US copyright enemies list is worst ever, including countries whose crime is poverty from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Michael Geist sez, The U.S. Trade Representative released its annual Special 301 Report [an annual enemies list of countries judged not to be doing enough to police US copyrights] yesterday, unsurprisingly including Canada on the Priority … Read more
Is Twitter Trying to End the Tech Patent War? by Sam Laird Julian Assange’s TV debut from FP Passport by Joshua Keating The first episode of Julian Assange’s new TV show, The World Tomorrow, premiered on RT today with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah as the first guest. Aside from a quick intro and a … Read more