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#Cyberculture agenda: Obama pardons Chelsea Manning and Stuxnet leak source James Cartwright while Snowden never filed paperwork requesting a pardon…

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Obama just freed whistleblower Chelsea Manning The Next Web by Bryan Clark   President Obama just effectively freed Chelsea Manning from the 32 remaining years in her jail sentence, according to the New York Times. While it’s not a presidential pardon, the commutation of Manning’s sentence will see her go free in just five months. Chelsea Manning to … Read more

Journalism agenda: “The wild west of automated news”

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The wild west of automated news. A Medium collection ************** Centre for Community Journalism launches network to represent independent news publishers Journalism.co.uk   The network will provide an online forum, training and advocacy for its members The year of the fact-checking bot  Nieman Journalism Lab by Bill Adair   A year ago, I predicted that 2016 would … Read more

Journalism agenda: “How to find breaking news on Twitter…”How can journalists use Whatsapp for newsgathering

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How to find breaking news on Twitter firstdraftnews.com by Alastair Reid By its very nature, breaking news happens unexpectedly. Simply waiting for something to start trending on Twitter is not an option for journalists – you’ll have to actively seek it out. The most important rule is to switch perspectives with the eyewitness and ask yourself, “What would I … Read more

Inside Higher Ed piece: “Turkish Academe Under Attack……Literati roundup…

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Turkish Academe Under Attack Turkish scholars describe a growing intolerance for dissent. February 12, 2016 By Elizabeth Redden In the early morning hours of Jan. 15, the antiterror police came to Yucel Demirer’s home. He was taken to police headquarters, where he shared a cell with fellow Kocaeli University professors who, like him, had signed … Read more

Anthropology agenda: A new site “Sapiens” (@sapiens_org) by The Wenner-Gren Foundation… “Best Cultural Anthropology Dissertations 2015…

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Dear Colleague, Chances are you’ve heard about SAPIENS, our new initiative to bring cutting-edge anthropological research to a broader public audience. Throughout its development, we’ve thought of SAPIENS as building on the tradition of Sol Tax andCurrent Anthropology. But whereas that journal’s launch marked a new era in scholarly communication, SAPIENS will provide a new … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: As Wikipedia’s 15th birthday passed, “The Most-Edited Wikipedia Pages Over The Last 15 Years…

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The Most-Edited Wikipedia Pages Over The Last 15 Years  FiveThirtyEight » Features by Andrew Flowers Wikipedia will turn 15 years old tomorrow. The free online collaborative encyclopedia has grown explosively: from fewer than 500,000 English-language articles in 2005 to more than 5 million in 2015. And as the site has grown, so have the edits to … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: A big loss: “Ian “Debian” Murdock dies after threatening suicide

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A Brief History of Debian – The Debian Manifesto debian.org [ previous ] [ Contents ] [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ A ] [ next ] Written by Ian A. Murdock, Revised 01/06/94 Debian Linux is a brand-new kind of Linux distribution. Rather than being developed by … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: French (and probably other) governments are after Encryption software…

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French Ministry of Interior wants to ban open wifi, Tor Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow A leaked memo from the Ministry sets out new bills it would like to see introduced into the French Parliament as early as next month, setting out an ambitious plan to block privacy tools, something only technically possible by recreating China’s … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: Big Data might justify racism in wrong hands… Wikipedia’s use of artificial intelligence…

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Wikipedia is using artificial intelligence to get more actual humans writing articles The Next Web by Napier Lopez Better artificial intelligence is often associated with the detriment of a human workforce, but judging by some new practices by the team at Wikipedia HQ, it doesn’t have to be that way. Racist algorithms: how Big Data makes bias seem objective  Boing … Read more

Opportunist authorities are quick to blame Encryption after Paris… Cyberculture Agenda…

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Exploiting Emotions About Paris to Blame Snowden, Distract from Actual Culprits Who Empowered ISIS The Intercept by Glenn Greenwald Whistleblowers are always accused of helping America’s enemies (top Nixon aides accused Daniel Ellsberg of being a Soviet spy and causing the deaths of Americans with his leak); it’s just the tactical playbook that’s automatically used. So … Read more

Journalism agenda: “The Economist’s anti-ad-blocking tool was hacked…

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Narcodata, an In-Depth Data Journalism Project That Contextualizes the Drug War in Mexico  Global Voices Online Screenshot from Narcodata’s introduction video. The Economist’s anti-ad-blocking tool was hacked and infected readers’ computers  Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Pagefair is an ad-blocking circumvention tool that publishers can use to track readers who’ve taken technological countermeasures to protect their privacy. … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: “HOWTO use Tor Messenger…

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How big data and The Sims are helping us to build the cities of the future The Next Web by The Conversation By 2050, the United Nations predicts that around 66 percent of the world’s population will be living in urban areas. It is expected that the greatest expansion will take place in developing regions such … Read more

Journalism agenda: A journalist, Svetlana Alexievich wins Nobel… Twitter and Reddit moves more into journalistic production…

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Nobel Prize in literature goes to journalist from Belarus  EurActiv.com Svetlana Alexievich, a Belarussian journalist and dissident writer, won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday (8 October) “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time”, the Swedish Academy announced.   How the Crowd and Automation Are Shaping Journalism Social Media Today by … Read more

Data battles in Europe: “NSA spying means US servers are not a fit home for Europeans’ data…Cyberculture agenda..

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EU top court: NSA spying means US servers are not a fit home for Europeans’ data  Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Historically, US companies have been able to get around the (relatively stringent) European data-protection rules thanks to a “Safe Harbor” agreement between the US and the EU — but Max Schrems, an Austrian privacy activist, … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: 2015 Pioneer Award Winners… More revelations from the Ashley Madison hack…

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EFF Announces 2015 Pioneer Award Winners: Caspar Bowden, Citizen Lab, Anriette Esterhuysen and the Association for Progressive Communications, and Kathy Sierra  EFF.org Updates by Rebecca Jeschke Ceremony for Honorees on September 24 in San Francisco San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is pleased to announce the distinguished winners of the 2015 Pioneer Awards: the … Read more

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