Cyberculture agenda: “Turkey Submits Highest Volume of Removal Requests to Twitter…”The Growing Problem of Bots That Fight Online…

TWITTER TRANSPARENCY REPORT: Turkey Submits Highest Volume of Removal Requests to Twitter  Bianet :: English Turkey has been listed as the country with the greatest number of removal requests in Twitter’s first biannual Transparency Report of 2016. The Growing Problem of Bots That Fight Online  MIT Technology Review The way software agents interact on the Web is … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: “A Worldwide Survey of Encryption Products…

A Worldwide Survey of Encryption Products Berkman Center Newsfeed Teaser In this paper, which is modeled on a similar effort in 1999 by researchers from George Washington University, Berkman Fellow Bruce Schneier and collaborator Kathleen Seidel together with Harvard College student Saranya Vijayakuma identify and survey 865 encryption products from 55 different countries, 546 of them … Read more

Journalism agenda: “Vice now has a Securedrop for anonymous whistleblower docs…

Vice now has a Securedrop for anonymous whistleblower docs Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Securedrop is a robust, secure, anonymous system for whistleblowers to convey documents to news organizations, created by Aaron Swartz and taken up by the Freedom of the Press Foundation after his death. (more…) See How Many Civilians Have Been Killed In Syria In … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: The Verge explains ” how Twitter’s new algorithmic timeline is going to work

Here’s how Twitter’s new algorithmic timeline is going to work theverge.com – Casey Newton – Feb 6, 2:51 PM Twitter went into an uproar Friday after a BuzzFeed report that the social network was on the brink of tossing its traditional timeline for a Facebook-style feed. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tried to calm fears this … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: “Berkman Center Launches New Internet Data Dashboard

Berkman Center Launches New Internet Data Dashboard  Berkman Center Newsfeed Subtitle Dashboard debuts at World Economic Forum meeting in Geneva Teaser The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is pleased to announce the launch of the Internet Monitor dashboard, a freely accessible tool that aims to improve information for policymakers, researchers, advocates, and … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: Another secular blogger murdered in Bangladesh… “Vice Staff Unionizes…

“No Country For Secular Bloggers”: Niloy Neel is the Fourth Bangladeshi Blogger To Be Killed in 2015 Global Voices Online Murdered blogger Niloy Neel, Image by Reza Sumon. Copyright Demotix (7/8/2015) Fourth secular Bangladesh blogger hacked to death AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH) Gang armed with machetes kill blogger at his home in Dhaka in the fourth … Read more