WJS piece: “How Turkey’s Erdogan became one of the world’s most determined Internet censors

How Turkey’s Erdogan became one of the world’s most determined Internet censors ISTANBUL?Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan rode around Google Inc.GOOGL +0.68% headquarters last spring in the company’s self-driving car, tried on Google Glass eyewear and vowed to keep digitizing the economy in the country he has ruled since 2003. Since then, the 60-year-old Mr. Erdogan has turned his democratically … Read more

A Journalism roundup: Al Jazeera America and more…

Reinventing American cable news from Qatar: Why everyone?s talking about Al Jazeera America Al Jazeera America will launch on August 20 and, according to increasingly contentious recent coverage, it?s either going to save American cable news or be a disaster. How Google Glass can evolve as a tool for journalists Editor?s note: This is a guest … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: Teens and Technology 2013 Report… Aaron Swartz’s unfinished monograph on the “programmable Web”

Teens and Technology 2013: New Survey Findings from Pew Research Center & Berkman Center from Berkman Center Newsfeed by ashar The Berkman Center for Internet & Society and its Youth and Media Project are pleased to share a new report, the second in a series discussing issues of youth and privacy in collaboration with the … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: Yandex vs. Google on Android app store… an Interview with Peter Sunde, co-founder of The Pirate Bay…

The ?six strike? Copyright Alert System is now in place: Here?s what you need to know from The Next Web by Alex Wilhelm ?Six Strikes? Anti-Piracy Plan Is Both Loathed and Watched Closely from Mashable! by Alex Fitzpatrick ?Six Strikes? Anti-Piracy Scheme Starts Today, With Mystery Punishments from TorrentFreak by Ernesto Yandex deals Google a … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: The Guardian piece on Hackers, Germany on Amazon probe, Bitcoin, Google Glass…

How Hackers Changed the World and Meet the Izzards ? TV review The Guardian Anonymous famously deployed its collective muscle in the cause of WikiLeaks and the Arab spring, but since then affiliated groups such as Lulzsec have strayed into actions that some Anonymous members find either merely malicious or ethically dubious Germany probes Amazon’s … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: EFF suggests “Three Things Students Can Do Now to Promote Open Access…Geeks… Safer Internet Day…

Geeks Are the New Guardians of Our Civil Liberties from Mashable! by MIT Technology Review Now is a good time to re-set your Twitter password and disable Java in your browser from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin Twitter says that it was hacked and 250,000 users may have been compromised from The Next Web by … Read more